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UN experts condemn euthanasia for disability

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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%

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

‘Nothing progressive about ripping up’ protections

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

Parliamentary flurry over Dignitas in lockdown

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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

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

NZ vote ‘based on widespread confusion’

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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

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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
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