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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

Broken, you say? No

Articles
11 August, 2015

Britain’s law on assisted suicide is not ‘broken’ and does not need ‘fixing’

Limits to choice

Articles
7 August, 2015

The assisted suicide of Gill Pharaoh reminds us that actually, there are limits to choice

Washington PAS stats up again

Articles
28 July, 2015

Lord Falconer and Rob Marris invite the UK to follow Oregon. Washington State did (to the letter) and their latest, 2014, figures are up again

Assisted Dying Bill published

Official documents
27 July, 2015

Almost seven weeks after it was announced, and barely seven weeks until MPs – many of whom are now on holiday – debate it, the Assisted Dying (No. 2) Bill is finally published

ECtHR: legal bid ‘inadmissible’

Official documents
16 July, 2015

The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg has found the latest Nicklinson/Lamb legal challenge to be ‘manifestly ill-founded and declared it inadmissible’

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