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Andy Burnham has delivered a significant blow to attempts to legalise assisted suicide, after he called for the “fixing” of social care and palliative care funding before there was any debate on legalisation. The new prime minister spoke out yesterday (Wednesday) […]
A disabled MP has dropped his support for the assisted suicide bill, largely because of concerns that “broken” social care and palliative care services could push terminally-ill people into seeking an assisted death. Steve Darling told Disability News Service (DNS) this […]
The decision of Labour leader Keir Starmer to publicly back assisted suicide is “very alarming” and will make it “very, very difficult” for disabled campaigners to prevent its legalisation, according to those opposing a change in the law. Starmer told ITV […]
Four disabled people have given evidence to a parliamentary inquiry to try to fight back against the well-funded campaign that aims to push parliament towards unsafe plans to legalise assisted suicide. The four campaigners told MPs of their fears that legalisation […]
Legalising assisted suicide would mean the state “endorsing” NHS-funded deaths, at a time when just one-third of palliative care is government-funded, MPs have been warned. Dr Matthew Doré, honorary secretary of the Association for Palliative Medicine of Great Britain and Ireland, […]