Tag: Legislation

Saying ‘no’ to Margo

A catalogue of reasons why Margo MacDonald's Assisted Suicide Bill should be rejected

‘New Poll Shows Drop In Support For Euthanasia’

A new poll published in Scotland in relation to Margo MacDonald MSP's Assisted Suicide Bill points to a downward shift in support for such measures.

Euthanasia in children: why the proposed Belgian legislation is misconceived

Charles Foster, who this week made CNK's intervention in the Supreme Court assisted suicide appeals, puts the current Belgian child euthanasia debate in perspective.

Belgium’s grisly descent…

...down euthanasia's slippery slope

Belgian child euthanasia vote

Belgian Senate will vote on bill to extend euthanasia to children with disabilities on 26 November

A deadly conflict of interest

Why euthanasia in Belgium is so out of control

Lords bill is a ‘blank cheque’

Lord Falconer's 'Assisted Dying' Bill is 'asking Parliament to sign a blank cheque' say peers

Falconer: doctors above the law?

Lord Falconer reveals that his 'Assisted Dying' Bill effectively places doctors above the law

Tasmania rejects euthanasia bill

Bill to legalise euthanasia and assisted suicide defeated in the Australian state's legislature

NZ euthanasia bill withdrawn

MP withdraws euthanasia bill after pressure from Labour Party colleagues

Key analysts blast Falconer Bill

Leading parliamentary think tank Living and Dying Well says Lord Falconer's 'Assisted Dying' Bill fails public safety test

French euthanasia law coming

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

Escalation of child euthanasia

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

Assisted living, not assisted dying

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

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

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

Groningen Protocol

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

Don't be fooled by peer's 'modest' assisted suicide proposals