assisted suicide

Human Rights

Two women in wheelchairs in front of a series of white gravestones erected outside the Royal Courts of Justice

June 28, 2018 0

Relief after court rejects latest assisted suicide legal bid and highlights law change dangers

Disabled activists have welcomed the court of appeal’s decision to reject the latest attempt to legalise assisted suicide. They spoke out after three senior judges yesterday (Wednesday) rejected the judicial review brought by Noel Conway, who is terminally-ill with motor neurone disease. Conway had wanted the court to find that the Suicide Act –

Activism and Campaigning

Seven people on a stage, with Juliet Marlow in a wheelchair far right, in front of a screen that says Choice at the end of life

February 15, 2018 0

Anger over Royal Society’s ‘love fest for euthanasia’ conference

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Disabled activists have attacked the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) for hosting a conference on “choice at the end of life” that was little more than a “love fest for euthanasia”. RSM said before the event that the conference would “question whether or not assisted dying is complementary or contradictory to the notion of

Human Rights

Liz Carr holds up a sign saying Assisted suicide is not the solution, next to a man holding a sign saying don't give doctors a licence to kill, in front of other protesters

February 1, 2018 0

Concern over balance of major end-of-life conference

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Disabled campaigners have raised concerns that a major conference on “end of life choice” – being organised by the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) – appears to be tilted in favour of speakers who want to legalise assisted suicide. Of speakers lined up to speak at the conference who have previously expressed their views

Activism and Campaigning

Baroness Campbell speaking in the House of Lords

October 12, 2017 0

Court’s assisted suicide ruling ‘confirms growing resistance’ to law change

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A court’s rejection of the latest bid to legalise assisted suicide shows that a group of disabled activists, and the medical profession, are now leading the opposition to a change in the law, according to a disabled peer. Noel Conway, who is terminally-ill with motor neurone disease, wanted the high court to find that

Activism and Campaigning

Baroness Campbell, in her wheelchair in the centre of a richly-decorated room

July 27, 2017 0

Activists fighting ‘assisted suicide’ laws now need ‘hard facts’ for battle ahead

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Disabled activists will need to seek out more “hard facts” if they want to fight off the continuing threat of efforts to persuade the courts to legalise assisted suicide, according to a crossbench peer. Baroness [Jane] Campbell spoke out after the campaign group of disabled people she founded, Not Dead Yet UK (NDY UK),

Activism and Campaigning

Two female wheelchair-users hold placards saying 'assisted suicide is not the solution'

July 13, 2017 0

Activists set for ‘David and Goliath’ fight to defeat assisted suicide court bid

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A group of disabled activists – led by a crossbench peer – are to intervene in a legal case for the first time next week, in a bid to persuade three high court judges not to weaken the law to allow assisted suicide. Not Dead Yet UK (NDY UK), a campaign group of disabled

Human Rights

Two wheelchair-users protesting outside parliament, one of them (Dennis Queen) is holding a placard saying 'who will be next', and is wearing a Not Dead Yet UK tee-shirt

March 2, 2017

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Assisted suicide research finds ‘common ground’ between opposing camps

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Disabled researchers who interviewed both opponents of legalising assisted suicide and those in favour of new laws have found “a surprising amount of common ground” between the two groups. The research, published by the national service-user and disabled people’s network Shaping Our Lives (SOL), found that “oversimplified” media reporting on the complex arguments for

Politics

Debbie Abrahams speaking in parliament, with John McDonnell sitting behind her

November 17, 2016

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Abrahams ‘uninvites’ DPO… because it wanted to talk about independent living

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Labour’s relationship with the disability movement has suffered another blow after the party invited a disabled people’s organisation to speak at a major consultation launch, and then withdrew the invitation after discovering what it was planning to speak about. The party’s shadow work and pensions secretary, Debbie Abrahams (pictured), had asked Greater Manchester Coalition

Politics

July 21, 2016

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Concern over Mordaunt’s ‘troubling’ appointment as disability minister

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Disabled activists say they are “deeply concerned” by the “troubling” decision to appoint an outspoken supporter of legalising assisted suicide as the new minister for disabled people. Penny Mordaunt was appointed minister for disabled people, health and work, in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) this week after the sacking of Justin Tomlinson.

Human Rights

June 23, 2016

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Relief after doctors maintain strong opposition to assisted suicide

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Disabled activists have welcomed the decision of doctors to vote strongly against relaxing their union’s position on physician-assisted suicide. The British Medical Association (BMA) voted by 63 per cent to 37 per cent this week at its annual representative meeting (ARM) in Belfast to maintain its current position of being opposed to physician-assisted suicide.

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