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Euthanasia to escape lockdown in Canada

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

Parliamentary flurry over Dignitas in lockdown

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

NZ vote ‘based on widespread confusion’

  • Articles
Responding to the results of a referendum on euthanasia, campaigners in New Zealand note that polling indicated ‘widespread confusion’ about how a new law would function.

The Times, 2 November 2020

  • Letters
CNK’s CEO writes following the publication of yet more opinion polling which fails to address the risks and failings of legalised assisted suicide and euthanasia, concluding: ‘mendacious claims about safeguards and strict limits should be dismissed.’

Not ‘just another customer-supplier relationship’

  • Letters
A palliative care physician considers medical opinion on assisted suicide and answers the question: ‘Where is the patient in all this?’

Widening Canada’s euthanasia law set to save $149m

  • Articles
As Canada considers how to enact court-ordered extension of its euthanasia law beyond those whose deaths are reasonably foreseeable, analysts estimate increased deaths will see significant savings

BMA ‘assisted dying’ poll takeaways

  • Articles
Beneath the headline grabbing top-line numbers lies a complex picture of medical opinion on the question of whether they should be empowered to end patients’ lives

Dutch to extend euthanasia to children of any age

  • Articles
Government announcement would see current minimum age of 12 dropped.

‘Not signs of progress but rather a regression’

  • Articles
High level Spanish report points to ‘solid health, ethical, legal, economic and social reasons’ to reject euthanasia and assisted suicide

New Scottish assisted suicide bill to come in 2021

  • Articles
Activists announce that they will bring a new bill following Holyrood elections set for May 2021
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