Tag: Legislation

The DPP needs to explain to Parliament why she has seemingly decriminalised physician assisted suicide
We reflect on the principles and priorities of an honourable gentleman, whose approach should serve as a model for others
Regardless of views in principle, Lord Falconer's Bill is 'unsatisfactory', say lawyers Khawar Qureshi QC and Catriona Nicol.
A report by Professor John Keown of Georgetown University concerning the Assisted Dying Bill and its broader context
What have you done to oppose the 'Assisted Dying' Bill?
Assumptions about dementia could have major implications for proposed legislation to allow assisted suicide in the UK
Depression is normally a reversible condition, but campaigners regard suicidal tendencies in people with chronic or terminal illnesses not as symptomatic of depression but as a rational will to die
Lawyer David Foster considers June's Supreme Court ruling, and its implications
Baroness Campbell, noted disability rights campaigner, discusses the real threat posed to disabled people by the Falconer Bill, and why its passage would constitute 'the triumph of despair over hope'
'The Assisted Dying Bill devalues the lives of terminally ill and disabled people'
Care Not Killing has responded to the Scottish Parliament's call for evidence concerning the Assisted Suicide (Scotland) Bill. Have you?
Assisted Suicide (Scotland) Bill
David Cameron's reaffirmed opposition to assisted suicide is in keeping with other party leaders' comments over recent years
BMA past president tells the House of Lords that claims that prosecutorial guidelines 'inhibit' doctors are 'unfounded'
Four years after the then Director of Public Prosecutions published his criteria for prosecuting in instances of assisted suicide, Peers last week locked horns over the merits and demerits of the guidelines.
Child euthanasia in Belgium has been denounced at the Council's Parliamentary Assembly - 'the democratic conscience of Greater Europe'
A catalogue of reasons why Margo MacDonald's Assisted Suicide Bill should be rejected