Dutch academic and former euthanasia regulator Theo Boer and American lawyer and author Wesley Smith addressed Parliamentarians on World Suicide Prevention Day.
Disability rights advocate Baroness Grey-Thompson, geriatrician Professor Des O'Neill and palliative care consultant Dr Sinéad Donnelly discuss euthanasia and assisted suicide.
Care Not Killing has strongly condemned a Dutch End of Life Bill that would extend euthanasia to anyone over the age of 75, even if they have no illness or disability.
Reaction to the first public comments of a Dutch doctor cleared of murder after sedating, restraining and administering euthanasia to a patient with dementia.
Lord Chancellor Robert Buckland renews commitment given to Care Not Killing, reiterating that the law on assisted suicide is a matter for Parliament, not Government policy or the courts.
Assisted suicide advocates who've said their approach would 'save money in the long-term' are promoting 'all-or-nothing' advance decisions in the context of coronavirus, with little encouragement 'to consider the likely benefits and burdens of different treatments.'
Senior healthcare professionals and rights campaigners denounce inappropriate and even 'discriminatory' misapplications of an ordinarily valuable clinical tool, as the country grapples with Covid-19.
Recent reports from Canada reveal a worrying trend of doctors being pressurised and bullied into participating in Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD, the Canadian euthanasia programme).
CNK welcomes an 'extensive and unusually frank statement from the UK's oldest medical organisation' which 'rightly puts a sword to the lie that the RCP supports a change in the law - it does not.'
Further details of the Royal College of General Practitioners' consultation of members in 2019 show that those whose votes kept the College opposed did so because of the risk to vulnerable patients.
The American state's assisted suicide law, which demands prognoses of six months or less, sees patients live for more than four years between request and death, with 'terminal diseases' including 'complications from a fall'
Care Not Killing welcomes the RCGP Council's decision, following 'the largest consultation on an issue of public policy that the College has conducted.'
Dozens of doctors, many leaders in their respective fields, co-sign a letter to The Times expressing the hope that 'assisted dying will not become a medical intervention in the UK', published on the day the BMA's consultation on the matter commences.
As the BMA consultation gets under way, and following efforts in Parliament to push for a weakening of the law, CNK's CEO, Gordon Macdonald, writes in the Sunday Times.
The BMA defines 'physician-assisted dying' as covering both assisted suicide and euthanasia. What would neutrality really mean, and why should members remain opposed?
Care Not Killing has responded to the latest call for an inquiry into assisted suicide and euthanasia made in today's Sunday Express by saying it not necessary or wanted.
