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A world-leading scientist, given just two years to live four years ago, has told parliamentarians that his success in harnessing cutting-edge technology to secure his own right to live – and even to “thrive” – completely undermines calls to legalise assisted […]
Four leading disabled campaigners – a scientist, an academic, a consultant and a peer – have explained to parliamentarians why proposals to legalise assisted suicide would put disabled people’s lives at risk. All four told a meeting of the all-party parliamentary […]
Disabled activists have warned that the latest bid to persuade parliament to legalise assisted suicide is a threat to their “lives, independence and peace of mind”. The latest attempt to force a law change is being led by the crossbench peer […]
The Liberal Democrats have been accused of an “appalling attack on disabled people” after they admitted that their party policy is to call for assisted suicide to be legalised. The party issued a press release at the weekend welcoming what it […]
Disabled activists have spoken of their shock and alarm after 18 police and crime commissioners (PCCs) signed a letter calling for a change in the law on assisted suicide. The 18 politicians, who have all been elected to oversee how crime […]
A disabled peer has criticised Liberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable for backing the “discriminatory” campaign to legalise assisted suicide. Cable had spoken out after the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) decided to move to a position of “neutrality” on the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]