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Two thirds want care fixed before “assisted dying” debated

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“Only 11% are immune to any anti-assisted dying arguments, suggesting that large swathes of the public remain fluid in their view.”

Poll: 62% say “assisted dying” too complex to rush

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Warning to MPs as Leadbeater Bill second reading nears.

Leadbeater Bill: who’s warning against?

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Former PM Gordon Brown joins the Health and Justice Secretaries, Lib Dem leader, disability rights groups, and medical bodies in urging the Bill’s rejection on 29 November.

70% say: Royal Commission on palliative care first, then debate “assisted dying”

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New polling also shows 51% agree that “assisted dying inevitably discriminates against the poor who cannot afford comfortable end-of-life living.”

Thousands of doctors & nurses issue stark warning

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Thousands of doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals say: or the sake of us all, do not rush into hasty legislation but instead fund excellent palliative care

Press Release: Leadbeater Bill published

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“This bill is being rushed with indecent haste and ignores the deep-seated problems in the UK’s broken and patchy palliative care system and the crisis in social care”

Palliative medicine holds firm on assisted suicide

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The Association for Palliative Medicine of Great Britain and Ireland leads members of the specialty in urging MPs not to support Kim Leadbeater MP’s assisted suicide bill

Leadbeater Bill: contact your MP

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Use our email portal to contact your MP about Kim Leadbeater’s “Terminally Ill Adults (End of life) Bill” Bill, ahead of second reading debate and vote on 29 November

Judges and lawyers question Bill “safeguards”

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Legal scholars and senior jurists on why including the High Court isn’t the safeguard it sounds like, and why criteria are ripe for legal challenge and expansion

Public opinion: an increasingly complex picture

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Many sympathise with the aims of “assisted dying” campaigners, but aren’t convinced it can be implemented safely

Welsh Parliament rejects assisted suicide

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A motion proposing support for a change in the law at Westminster is voted down 26-19.

MP Kim Leadbeater to bring new assisted suicide bill

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Gordon Macdonald urges MPs to consider new polling, which paints a far more complex picture of public opinion than usually claimed.
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