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The Green party has been asked how it can justify calls for the legalisation of assisted suicide at the same time that it claims to be in favour of implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD). […]
A leading disabled artist and activist is hoping that securing funding to develop a musical about assisted suicide from a prestigious disability arts programme might help “tip the balance” in the continuing campaign to oppose legalisation. Liz Carr is one of […]
The Liberal Democrats have been accused of “deadly discrimination”, after they failed to pledge that their new target of “zero suicides in the NHS” would also apply to terminally-ill people. Disabled activists campaigning against the legalisation of assisted suicide were initially […]
The Liberal Democrats have refused to say whether setting a new “ambition” for “zero suicides” in the NHS would be compatible with proposed laws that would legalise assisted suicide. Nick Clegg, the party leader and deputy prime minister, said at this […]
Disabled activists were outside the House of Lords today (Friday) for a highly personal protest about the latest attempts to legalise assisted suicide. As peers continued the committee stage of Lord Falconer’s assisted dying bill protesters from Not Dead Yet UK […]
If assisted suicide was legalised, disabled people would have most to fear from the widespread public attitude that they were “better off dead”, according to a disabled peer. Baroness [Tanni] Grey-Thompson was speaking during the committee stage of the Labour peer […]