A Bad Law With Bad Consequences Sad day for New Zealand - following the Netherlands where one in twenty five of all deaths are now a result of euthanasia. Care and Kill are not Interchangeable words. Opposed by New Zealand's doctors, disability groups and hospices: a...
Nuala O'Loan And David Alton Urge Ireland's Politicians To Stop and Think Before Backing Euthanasia. TDs should stop and think before permitting the administering of lethal drugs to seriously ill people - and consider what similar legislation has led to elsewhere. Op...
Lord Bethell, the Department of Health and Social Care, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL8105): Question By Lord Alton of Liverpool:To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the reasons why (1)...
Baroness Barran, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL7956): Question from Lord Alton of Liverpool (Crossbench Peer): To ask Her Majesty's Government what discussions they...
February 2018 Yet another attempt is beinmg made to manipulate public and parliamentary opinion in favour of assisted killing. The well publicised, highly orchestrated and well funded campaign to introduce assisted killing into the UK has been at it...
January 16th 2015 Further Debate on the Falconer Bill. Is this "assisted dying" or "assisted suicide"? Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB): http://www.parliamentlive.tv/Main/Player.aspx?meetingId=16956&st=11:22:46.3370000 My Lords, I will be brief because I did hear...
July 18th 2014 Debate on the Assisted Dying Bill. 6.36 pm https: Care Not Killing Alliance interview about the Bill... //www.youtube.com/watch?v=E39xaYdqeX0&list=PLwjFHo9tsCgV8zRRMRNgNwKV68Ka-U3tE https://www.youtube.com/user/cnkalliance Full debate at:...
July 18th 2014 Debate on the Assisted Dying Bill. 6.36 pm https: Care Not Killing Alliance interview about the Bill... //www.youtube.com/watch?v=E39xaYdqeX0&list=PLwjFHo9tsCgV8zRRMRNgNwKV68Ka-U3tE https://www.youtube.com/user/cnkalliance Full debate at:...
Read the full parliamentary debate at: http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/hansard/lords/todays-lords-debates/read/unknown/94/ Also - see this BBC report of Belgium's decision to euthanise children: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25364745 Extracts...
SPEECH AT THE OXFORD UNION - October 2012 Anyone who has followed the cases of Tony Nicklinson, Diane Pretty and Debbie Purdy – whose personal tragedies can leave no sane man or woman untouched – will inevitably ask the question is it possible to frame a better law?...
Following the recent decisions of the Welsh Assembly, the First Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon, and the Scottish Parliament, to vote against assisted dying, David Cameron, the Prime Minister, has announced his opposition to the latest attempts to change the law...
http://www.righttolifetrust.org.uk/ https://www.davidalton.net/2012/05/07/phyllis-bowman-requiescat-in-pace-a-friend-in-high-places/ A National Memorial Service and Mass in thanksgiving for the life and work of the late Phyllis Bowman DSG, the founder and director...
My Lords, On a Friday last June many of us gathered in your Lordships’ House for what must rank as one of the longest second reading debates in recent years, starting at 11am and not finishing until just before 7pm. This was a memorable debate with many...
Richard Ottaway, Conservative MP for Croydon South, - a hard line advocate of abortion, population control and assisted dying, has been given time for a House of Commons debate on assisted suicide. Although the date is not yet been fixed, it is anticipated that the...
“These calls to create British euthanasia based laws on Dutch ones have been made in the same week that the Dutch announced that they are considering mobile units to kill people in their own homes. 1,000 of the 4,000 euthanasia deaths in Holland each year are now done...
In their television coverage of the euthanasia debate, the BBC are being derided as the Biased Broadcasting Corporation – reduced to mere cheerleaders for a change in the law, producing five programmes in the past three years in favour of a change, while...
Why Public Safety could be jeopardised by a change to the law on euthanasia: https://www.davidalton.net/2011/03/06/liverpool-legal-medical-society-votes-against-euthanasiaassisted-suicide/ And how the public debate is being recklessly manipulated: The BBC and Breach...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2011/jun/15/choosing-to-die-terry-pratchett ...
Right To Life has published its response to the campaign being waged to legalise euthanasia in the UK: FACTS ON EUTHANASIA THAT “DIGNITY IN DYING” WILL NOT DISCLOSE TO YOU 1. Since 1991 it has been a matter of public record that euthanasia deaths are...
Click here to see the power point presentation: 2010 Liverpool Medical-Legal Society 1 The Motion debated on November 25th at the Liverpool Medical Institution, by the Liverpool Legal-Medico Society (lawyers and medics) was to support changes in the law...
Lord Benyon, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL3877): Question by Lord Alton of Liverpool:To ask His Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the number of people...
Lord Alton of Liverpool (David Alton) as a Patron of Hong Kong Watch today chaired a meeting in Parliament to highlight the malign effects of Hong Kong's Article 23 on human rights. It examined the impact on media freedom, in advance of World Press Freedom Day on May...
Today I pressed Ministers to reduce the reliance of British universities on Chinese money. This is compromising national security and also compromising academic freedom – as the case of Professor Michelle Shipworth, which I raised, has demonstrated. 30th April...