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Assisted suicide legalisation ‘would risk lives’ after decade of cuts, MPs are told

By John Pring on 18th May 2023 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Assisted suicide legalisation ‘would risk lives’ after decade of cuts, MPs are told
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Anti-cuts activists have warned a Commons inquiry that more than a decade of cuts to social care has stripped disabled people of their independence and would leave them at “significant risk” if parliament decides to legalise assisted suicide. The warning came […]

Disabled activists raise concerns over MPs’ assisted suicide inquiry

By John Pring on 30th March 2023 Category: Human Rights

Disabled activists raise concerns over MPs’ assisted suicide inquiry
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Disabled activists have raised fears that they may not be asked to give evidence in public at a high-profile Commons inquiry into legalising assisted suicide. The health and social care committee began taking oral evidence this week, hearing from four peers […]

Disabled peers help defeat ‘manipulative’ bid to ‘open the door to assisted suicide’

By John Pring on 17th March 2022 Category: Politics

Disabled peers help defeat ‘manipulative’ bid to ‘open the door to assisted suicide’
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Four disabled peers have helped defeat attempts to hijack the government’s health and care bill and use it to secure a change in the law to legalise assisted suicide. The Conservative peer Lord Forsyth, a former secretary of state for Scotland, had proposed […]

Peers accused of hijacking health bill to try to force through assisted suicide

By John Pring on 3rd February 2022 Category: Politics

Peers accused of hijacking health bill to try to force through assisted suicide
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A disabled peer has accused fellow members of the House of Lords of attempting to “hijack” the health and care bill in a bid to secure a change in the law that would legalise assisted suicide. The crossbench peer Baroness [Jane] […]

Concern as former Tory minister bids to legalise assisted suicide by hijacking health bill

By John Pring on 13th January 2022 Category: Human Rights

Concern as former Tory minister bids to legalise assisted suicide by hijacking health bill
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An attempt to legalise assisted suicide by hijacking the government’s heath and care bill has raised serious concerns among disabled activists. The Conservative peer Lord Forsyth, a former secretary of state for Scotland, has tabled an amendment to the bill that […]

Peer ‘makes new bid for assisted suicide legalisation’ through health and care bill

By John Pring on 6th January 2022 Category: Politics

Peer ‘makes new bid for assisted suicide legalisation’ through health and care bill
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The crossbench peer leading parliamentary efforts to end the ban on assisted suicide appears to be trying to use the government’s health and care bill to make a parallel bid to introduce legalisation. Baroness Meacher’s assisted dying bill is awaiting its […]

Eight-hour debate suggests House of Lords is split on assisted suicide

By John Pring on 28th October 2021 Category: Politics

Eight-hour debate suggests House of Lords is split on assisted suicide
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The chances of a bill that aims to legalise assisted suicide being passed by the House of Lords appear to be in the balance after nearly eight hours of debate among peers. The organisation Dignity in Dying, which leads the campaign […]

Peers set to debate ‘dangerous’ and ‘incoherent’ assisted suicide bill

By John Pring on 21st October 2021 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Peers set to debate ‘dangerous’ and ‘incoherent’ assisted suicide bill
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Disabled people have called on MPs and peers to focus their efforts on pushing for a right to live independently, and not a right to die, as the House of Lords prepares to debate a “dangerous” and “incoherent” bill that would […]

Opponents of assisted suicide must ‘shout louder’, after doctors vote for neutrality

By John Pring on 16th September 2021 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Opponents of assisted suicide must ‘shout louder’, after doctors vote for neutrality
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Disabled campaigners have called on those who oppose the legalisation of assisted suicide to “shout louder” about their opposition, after doctors voted by a tiny margin to move to a position of neutrality on the issue. Representatives of doctors and medical […]

‘Human cyborg’ tells MPs: ‘My living experiment proves assisted suicide bill is unsafe’

By John Pring on 22nd July 2021 Category: Human Rights

‘Human cyborg’ tells MPs: ‘My living experiment proves assisted suicide bill is unsafe’
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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 […]

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