Tag: Legislation

Assisted Suicide in the 2024 Manifestos

What are the major parties pledging regarding assisted suicide legislation in the new Parliament?

Holyrood right-to-palliative-care bill welcomed

Press release: Care Not Killing and Our Duty of Care herald new bill, as consultation opens.

CNK responds to Manx bill’s second reading

“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.”

Caution urged as MSPs hear from Canadian doctor

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

German rejection of assisted suicide welcomed

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

Quebec expands euthanasia law

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

Canada: yes to minors, mental illnesses on hold

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.

Think tank report urges assisted suicide caution

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

It’s consultation season

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.

Scottish consultation summary published

Care Not Killing responds in the media as Liam McArthur prepares to publish his assisted suicide bill “in the near future”

Westminster Hall debate voices of caution welcomed

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.

WATCH: MPs hear expert testimony from Canada

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

New Manx assisted suicide proposal

Members of the House of Keys grant leave for an assisted suicide bill to be brought forward in the Isle of Man

Government agrees palliative care right

The Government has agreed to amend the Health and Care Bill to make palliative care commissioning a legal requirement across England