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Lords question rebuffed

  • Events Reports
Government minister tells assisted suicide campaigner the Government will not form policy on a matter of conscience, and reminds peers that the current law has been judged to strike a ‘fair balance’

Senior judge: law prevents abuse

  • Articles
Former Supreme Court justice Lord Sumption questions basis of claimed public support for assisted suicide and says current legal protections are necessary to guard against abuse

Times reports BBC bias complaint

  • Media centre
Care Not Killing complaint to BBC Director-General Lord Hall over the corporation’s coverage of assisted suicide receives coverage in national media

Kiwis speak: the threat to us

  • Personal stories
Watch ordinary New Zealanders explain why a proposed assisted suicide law would pose a direct threat to them and countless people like them

Fertile soil for assisted suicide

  • Articles
Successive pieces of research demonstrate ‘a lack of understanding that death can be ‘gentle, peaceful and pain-free” – but also that providers of good end of life care face mounting challenges

Charity Commission to quiz RCP

  • Articles
Charities regulator set to ‘investigate’ doctors’ group over ‘sham’ assisted suicide poll

Release: Lamb renews legal bid

  • Press Releases
Care Not Killing is disappointed at the latest and unnecessary legal challenge to the Suicide Act by the campaigner Paul Lamb

RCP consultation: key takeaways

  • Articles
According to a specialty by specialty breakdown, the closer respondents to this year’s Royal College of Physicians’ consultation were to the care of dying people, the more likely they were to be opposed to assisted suicide

RCP: backlash continues

  • Letters
Members and fellows publish open letter concerning problems with the RCP’s abandonment of opposition to assisted suicide, following resignations from the RCP’s own ‘ignored’ ethics committee

Polling: a house of cards

  • Public opinion
Yet another opinion poll is unveiled on assisted suicide – riddled, once again, with euphemisms and suppositions

Holyrood motion laid against assisted suicide

  • Official documents
MSPs note concerns ‘that it would be impossible to put adequate safeguards in place, and… that the abuse of vulnerable people would probably take place’

MSPs refute assisted suicide call

  • Letters
MSPs from the Labour, Conservative, Liberal Democrat and Scottish National Parties come together to reject assisted suicide as a response to the needs of the people of Scotland
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