Tag: Legislation

What are the major parties pledging regarding assisted suicide legislation in the new Parliament?
Press release: Care Not Killing and Our Duty of Care herald new bill, as consultation opens.
“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.”
Press release: medical experts campaigning against Liam McArthur's Holyrood bill express their concerns ahead of a meeting between Dr James Downar and MSPs.
“Members of Parliament... should copy their German counterparts and reject any proposal to weaken our current laws.”
Bill 11, approved this week, ushers in advance requests for illnesses like dementia, and curtails hospice conscience rights.
Canadian Parliamentarians have recommended that euthanasia be made available to children, two weeks after the Government bowed to pressure and postponed expansion to those with mental illnesses.
The authors of 'Physician-Assisted Suicide: Improving the Quality of the Debate' include a retired Supreme Court Justice, a former Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission a leading barrister
The Crown Dependencies of Jersey and the Isle of Man are both consulting on legalising assisted suicide (and euthanasia), while the House of Commons Health Committee has also announced an inquiry.
Care Not Killing responds in the media as Liam McArthur prepares to publish his assisted suicide bill “in the near future”
Care Not Killing is pleased at the “strength and breadth” of opposition from MPs towards the policy of introducing euthanasia and assisted suicide (EAS), in the UK.
The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Dying Well (with which CNK works) hosted “Lessons from Canada: Evidence from Palliative Care, Psychiatry and Law” on 23 May 2022
Members of the House of Keys grant leave for an assisted suicide bill to be brought forward in the Isle of Man
The Government has agreed to amend the Health and Care Bill to make palliative care commissioning a legal requirement across England
A press release from the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Dying Well (a network of MPs and peers, supported by Care Not Killing, promoting excellence in end of life care and opposing the legalisation of doctor assisted suicide) following the Forsyth Amendment's rejection.
Read the joint submission of Care Not Killing and Our Duty of Care to the Scottish Parliament consultation concerning a proposed assisted suicide bill.
Your responses are invited to a consultation document on assisted suicide for Scotland ahead of a 22 December deadline
A press release from the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Dying Well (a network of MPs and peers, supported by Care Not Killing, promoting excellence in end of life care and opposing the legalisation of doctor assisted suicide) following the Assisted Dying Bill's second reading in the House of Lords.