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MPs: up palliative care funding

Letters
24 September, 2015

Following the Commons’ rejection of assisted suicide as a response to end of life challenges, 60 MPs have together called for increased funding for care and research

MPs’ speeches: personal stories

Personal stories
18 September, 2015

MPs make clear that the issues surrounding end of life care and decisions are as real for them as for all, with moving and often passionate contributions from all sides of the House

MPs’ speeches: questions without answers

Q&As
18 September, 2015

A common theme in analysis of the Marris Bill debate throughout the day and since has been the failure, or inability, to defend the Bill and its principles

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

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