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Anger over ‘abhorrent’ assisted suicide poster campaign at Westminster tube station

By John Pring on 28th November 2024 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Anger over ‘abhorrent’ assisted suicide poster campaign at Westminster tube station
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London transport bosses have refused to apologise for plastering the walls of a London Underground station with posters calling for the legalisation of assisted suicide. Disabled activists were horrified by the sight of poster after poster greeting passengers walking through a […]

Lib Dem conference: Party pushes for assisted suicide despite concerns over lack of ‘watertight’ safeguards

By John Pring on 19th September 2024 Category: Human Rights

Lib Dem conference: Party pushes for assisted suicide despite concerns over lack of ‘watertight’ safeguards
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Legalising assisted suicide is “the next great Liberal reform”, party members have been told, as the Liberal Democrats appear set to try to force through a change in the law in the coming months, despite continuing concerns over safeguards. Despite significant […]

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 […]

Disabled quartet tell MPs and peers why assisted suicide bill is unsafe and unsound

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

Disabled quartet tell MPs and peers why assisted suicide bill is unsafe and unsound
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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 […]

New bid to legalise assisted suicide ‘threatens disabled people’s lives and independence’

By John Pring on 27th May 2021 Category: Activism and Campaigning

New bid to legalise assisted suicide ‘threatens disabled people’s lives and independence’
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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 […]

Supreme Court ruling ‘risks bringing in euthanasia by the back door’

By John Pring on 2nd August 2018 Category: Human Rights

Supreme Court ruling ‘risks bringing in euthanasia by the back door’
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Disabled campaigners have warned that a Supreme Court ruling has removed a vital safeguard that protected the lives of brain-damaged patients who have been left unconscious. The Supreme Court ruled this week that families and doctors will no longer have to […]

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

By John Pring on 28th June 2018 Category: Human Rights

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

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

By John Pring on 15th February 2018 Category: Activism and Campaigning

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 […]

Concern over balance of major end-of-life conference

By John Pring on 1st February 2018 Category: Human Rights

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 […]

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

By John Pring on 27th July 2017 Category: Activism and Campaigning

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 […]

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