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CNK responds to Commons Health Committee AS report

Press Releases
28 February, 2024

Care Not Killing responds to the Health and Social Care Select Committee report on assisted suicide and euthanasia

WATCH: Dublin conference hears crucial warnings

Events Reports
22 November, 2023

Our Chief Executive Gordon Macdonald joins Canada’s Alex Schadenberg and others in addressing a Hope Ireland Conference in Dublin.

Prue’s Holyrood visit prompts warning over bill

Press Releases
22 November, 2023

Press release: “Put simply, it’s impossible to have a safe system of medicalised killing and MSPs should reject” assisted suicide proposals.

CNK responds to Manx bill’s second reading

Press Releases
31 October, 2023

“Providing high quality palliative care and supporting people at the end… is what we would urge the members of the House of Keys focus on and pull back from this dangerous and ideological policy.”

Times ‘fails to accurately reflect’ Congress vote

Letters
21 September, 2023

Our Chief Executive writes in The Times, in the wake of a troubling Anaesthetists Association Congress in Edinburgh.

Caution urged as MSPs hear from Canadian doctor

Press Releases
19 September, 2023

Press release: medical experts campaigning against Liam McArthur’s Holyrood bill express their concerns ahead of a meeting between Dr James Downar and MSPs.

Press release: FM’s PAS opposition hardens

Press Releases
4 September, 2023

Assisted suicide: campaigners against bill welcome hardening opposition from first minister

‘Suicide pods ready within a year’ – CNK responds

Media centre
31 August, 2023

Extremist assisted suicide activist Philip Nitschke announces that his 3D-printed suicide pods will be ready for general use within a year.

German rejection of assisted suicide welcomed

Press Releases
18 July, 2023

“Members of Parliament… should copy their German counterparts and reject any proposal to weaken our current laws.”

Quebec expands euthanasia law

Articles
9 June, 2023

Bill 11, approved this week, ushers in advance requests for illnesses like dementia, and curtails hospice conscience rights.

“Mercy killing” and suicide pact consultation submission

Submissions
9 June, 2023

Read the joint CNK-ODOC response to proposed changes to prosecution guidelines

CNK-ODOC suicide prevention submission 2022

Submissions
9 June, 2023

We considered, in particular, the arguments and evidence of the debate on assisted suicide in responding to the Department of Health consultation.

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