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MPs’ speeches: doctors & nurses speak in Commons

Medical Opinion
18 September, 2015

Around a dozen former healthcare professionals now sitting as MPs participated in the Marris Bill debate, with a number of speeches based on professional experience proving key

MPs’ speeches: the arguments

Articles
18 September, 2015

Considering the Assisted Dying (No. 2) Bill, MPs spoke on a wide range of principled and practical objections. Read a selection of these now

Marris Bill: reflections on vote

Articles
17 September, 2015

Defeat of the Marris Assisted Dying Bill – some reflections on how MPs voted

CNK welcomes Marris bill ‘no’

Press Releases
11 September, 2015

Care Not Killing welcomes Parliament’s ‘unequivocal’ rejection of the Marris’ Bill, by 330 votes to 118

Doctors: minority report

Letters
9 September, 2015

Doctors writing in the Guardian in support of assisted suicide are the ‘usual suspects’ and do not speak for the wider medical profession

Commons briefing paper published

Resources
8 September, 2015

The House of Commons Library has released its in-house briefing paper on the Assisted Dying (No. 2) Bill

Medication cuts could feed PAS

Articles
7 September, 2015

Latest cuts in prescribing proven cancer drugs could well steer people toward assisted suicide if Marris Bill passes

2015 bill guides published

Resources
4 September, 2015

In the run-up to the House of Commons debate on the Assisted Dying (No. 2) Bill, Care Not Killing warns MPs not to make Oregon’s mistake

Rally against assisted suicide

Events Reports
28 August, 2015

You’ve been meeting with and writing to MPs in your thousands: now join us outside Parliament on the day they debate the Assisted Dying (No. 2) Bill

Doctors tell MPs: PAS not the way

Letters
24 August, 2015

‘Assisting suicide runs counter to our duty of care’ say nearly 80 doctors in open letter to MPs

Top Oregon doctor: PAS law a ‘mistake’

Medical Opinion
24 August, 2015

Senior Oregon doctor says that ‘assisted suicide has been detrimental to patients, degraded the quality of medical care, and compromised the integrity of the medical profession’.

Still crazy after all these years

Articles
24 August, 2015

A timely reminder for those weary of continually revived ‘assisted dying’ proposals that the defences we return to are no less valid – and that ‘dignity’ may have been hijacked, but it has not been redefined

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