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Why GPs must say ‘no’

Medical Opinion
9 July, 2013

The RCGP should stand firm on opposing a change in the law to allow ‘assisted dying’

French euthanasia law coming

Articles
8 July, 2013

National ethics committee rejects euthanasia but President Hollande pledges a law by the end of the year.

BMA affirms Liverpool Care Pathway

Medical Opinion
2 July, 2013

Yorkshire GP Dr Mark Pickering on the BMA’s vote of confidence in the LCP

Importing death?

Articles
1 July, 2013

The question that the police have not asked and Nitschke has not answered

‘Dr Death’ comes to the UK

Articles
24 June, 2013

Should the Home Secretary have let this man in?

Escalation of child euthanasia

Articles
19 June, 2013

In this last week both Belgium and the Netherlands have taken further major steps regarding euthanasia for children.

Assisted living, not assisted dying

Personal opinion
23 May, 2013

Human rights, equalities and disability rights expert Neil Crowther dissects the most prominent reasons given for legal change.

The latest attempts to bring euthanasia and assisted suicide to Britain have begun

News
21 May, 2013

The Court of Appeal has concluded its case and the ‘Assisted Dying Bill’ has had its first reading – the die is cast.

Lord Falconer is seeking to overturn the Hippocratic Oath and change 2,400 years of history

Medical Opinion
20 May, 2013

‘I will neither give a deadly drug to anybody if asked for it, nor will I make a suggestion to this effect.’

Groningen Protocol

News
20 May, 2013

Asked for evidence of the much-maligned ‘slippery slope’, our Campaign Director shocked radio listeners with a Dutch protocol under which disabled babies can be euthanized.

Lord Falconer to table latest assisted suicide bill on May 15

Articles
10 May, 2013

Don’t be fooled by peer’s ‘modest’ assisted suicide proposals

Marie Fleming loses appeal challenging Irish ban on assisted suicide

Articles
29 April, 2013

Irish Supreme Court rules that there is ‘no explicit right to commit suicide, or to determine the time of one’s own death’ in Ireland’s Constitution.

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