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Press Release: disappointment at ‘divisive’ BMA vote

Press Releases
14 September, 2021

Care Not Killing disappointed at “divisive” BMA vote, which shows divide between doctors on assisted suicide and euthanasia

Holyrood Election 2021: Policies

Articles
28 April, 2021

The 2021 Scottish Elections have seen pledges on both palliative care and assisted suicide – and campaigners have made clear their intent to press the latter in the new Parliament.

Irish human rights body takes bill to task

Submissions
5 March, 2021

Ireland’s human rights watchdog identifies dangers of, and calls for ‘significant amendments’ to, euthanasia and assisted suicide bill

Portuguese President sends new law for review

Articles
4 March, 2021

‘Excessively indeterminate’ and subjective criteria see Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa question the constitutionality of a euthanasia bill

UN experts condemn euthanasia for disability

Articles
3 March, 2021

Special rapporteurs argue that legislative provisions for assisted suicide and euthanasia ‘tend to rest on – or draw strength from – ableist assumptions about the inherent “quality of life” or “worth’ of the life of a person with a disability.’

Oregon assisted suicides jump 28%

Articles
2 March, 2021

Total would translate to 3,880 for a UK-sized population

‘Nothing progressive about ripping up’ protections

Media centre
15 January, 2021

CNK CEO responds to activist MSPs, as politicians look ahead to the election of a new Scottish Parliament

MP: ‘Strict safeguards… little more than vague phrases’

Personal opinion
4 December, 2020

‘The time is well overdue for the assisted dying lobby to address these and other issues seriously, rather than to be wheeling out the same failed ideas over and again’, Desmond Swayne writes.

Euthanasia to escape lockdown in Canada

Press Releases
24 November, 2020

Elderly Canadian woman euthanised to avoid COVID lockdown, a “shocking” development warns CNK

Parliamentary flurry over Dignitas in lockdown

Articles
12 November, 2020

Activist MPs use coronavirus to press for the legalisation of assisted suicide, prompting ‘muddled thinking’ on travel abroad for assisted suicide but also a firm reiteration that the issue is for Parliament, not Government.

Doctors at coalface scrutinise simplistic claims

Letters
10 November, 2020

More than 50 ‘doctors who care daily for dying patients’ argue in The Sunday Times that ‘any marginal interest’ BMA members might have in legalising assisted suicide and/or euthanasia is ‘not matched by enthusiasm for the practice.’

MP raises assisted suicide travel during lockdown

Press Releases
6 November, 2020

CNK responds to parliamentary question on travelling for assisted suicide during COVID lockdown

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