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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 […]

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

By John Pring on 12th October 2017 Category: Activism and Campaigning

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 […]

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 […]

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

By John Pring on 13th July 2017 Category: Activism and Campaigning

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 […]

Embassy vigil ‘will show solidarity with victims of Japanese mass killings’

By John Pring on 4th August 2016 Category: Crime

Embassy vigil ‘will show solidarity with victims of Japanese mass killings’
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Activists are today (4 August) set to hold a vigil outside the Japanese embassy in central London to express their “horror and huge sadness” at last week’s mass killings of 19 disabled residents of a care institution in Japan. The idea […]

Relief after doctors maintain strong opposition to assisted suicide

By John Pring on 23rd June 2016 Category: Human Rights

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) […]

Activists protest outside premiere of ‘disability snuff movie’

By John Pring on 26th May 2016 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Activists protest outside premiere of ‘disability snuff movie’
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Appalled activists protested outside a London premiere last night after describing the film as a “disability snuff movie” that suggests disabled people are better off dead. The protest outside the Curzon Mayfair cinema in London’s West End was coordinated by the […]

Tributes paid to campaigner’s ‘steely determination, selflessness and dignity’

By John Pring on 21st January 2016 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Tributes paid to campaigner’s ‘steely determination, selflessness and dignity’
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Friends and fellow activists have paid tribute to the anti-euthanasia and disability rights campaigner Dr Kevin Fitzpatrick, whose life and death “epitomised the true meaning of dignity”. Fitzpatrick – who died on 15 January, leaving a wife, Fabienne, and three adopted […]

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