Tag: Legislation

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.
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.
...down euthanasia's slippery slope
Belgian Senate will vote on bill to extend euthanasia to children with disabilities on 26 November
Why euthanasia in Belgium is so out of control
Lord Falconer's 'Assisted Dying' Bill is 'asking Parliament to sign a blank cheque' say peers
Lord Falconer reveals that his 'Assisted Dying' Bill effectively places doctors above the law
Bill to legalise euthanasia and assisted suicide defeated in the Australian state's legislature
MP withdraws euthanasia bill after pressure from Labour Party colleagues
Leading parliamentary think tank Living and Dying Well says Lord Falconer's 'Assisted Dying' Bill fails public safety test
National ethics committee rejects euthanasia but President Hollande pledges a law by the end of the year.
In this last week both Belgium and the Netherlands have taken further major steps regarding euthanasia for children.
Human rights, equalities and disability rights expert Neil Crowther dissects the most prominent reasons given for legal change.
The Court of Appeal has concluded its case and the 'Assisted Dying Bill' has had its first reading - the die is cast.
'I will neither give a deadly drug to anybody if asked for it, nor will I make a suggestion to this effect.'
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.
Don't be fooled by peer's 'modest' assisted suicide proposals
As the next Westminster bill is prepared, we look at the awful lessons of its inspiration