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Our email tool makes it quick and easy to email your MP about the High Court Judge "safeguard" being removed

Leadbeater Bill: who’s warning against?

Former PM Gordon Brown joins the Health and Justice Secretaries, Lib Dem leader, disability rights groups, and medical bodies in urging the Bill’s rejection on 29 November.

70% say: Royal Commission on palliative care first, then debate “assisted dying”

New polling also shows 51% agree that "assisted dying inevitably discriminates against the poor who cannot afford comfortable end-of-life living."

Thousands of doctors & nurses issue stark warning

Thousands of doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals say: or the sake of us all, do not rush into hasty legislation but instead fund excellent palliative care

Palliative medicine holds firm on assisted suicide

The Association for Palliative Medicine of Great Britain and Ireland leads members of the specialty in urging MPs not to support Kim Leadbeater MP’s assisted suicide bill

Judges and lawyers question Bill “safeguards”

Legal scholars and senior jurists on why including the High Court isn’t the safeguard it sounds like, and why criteria are ripe for legal challenge and expansion

Public opinion: an increasingly complex picture

Many sympathise with the aims of “assisted dying” campaigners, but aren’t convinced it can be implemented safely

MP Kim Leadbeater to bring new assisted suicide bill

Gordon Macdonald urges MPs to consider new polling, which paints a far more complex picture of public opinion than usually claimed.

European Court: no assisted suicide right

“The Court observed that there were potentially broad social implications and risks of error and abuse involved in the provision of physician-assisted dying.

Quebec expands euthanasia law

Bill 11, approved this week, ushers in advance requests for illnesses like dementia, and curtails hospice conscience rights.