Tag: Leadbeater Bill

This is how safeguards are changed

Our email tool makes it quick and easy to email your MP about the High Court Judge "safeguard" being removed

CNK hits out at proposal to ditch High Court safeguard

Care Not Killing responds to “deeply worrying” proposal to ditch High Court safeguard from Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide bill.

ACT NOW: calls for evidence on assisted suicide bill and the state of palliative care

Two major calls for evidence have been issued at Westminster: one on the state of palliative care, and the other on the substance of Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide bill.

CNK responds to Leadbeater Bill second reading

Care Not Killing disappointed at second reading vote, but welcomes the growing number of MPs expressing concern about legalising assisted suicide.

Two thirds want care fixed before “assisted dying” debated

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

Leadbeater Bill: who’s warning against?

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”

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