Heidi Crowter We can’t legalise assisted dying until disabled lives are respected and valued How would we protect people with disabilities or autism in a society that is already routinely callous towards their needs? By Ian Birrell i columnist September 27, 2021...
Three important letters in today’s Times warn of the serious dangers posed by the proposal to legalise assisted dying – euphemism for euthanasia.
Three important letters in today’s Times warn of the serious dangers posed by the proposal to legalise assisted dying - euphemism for euthanasia. Warnings from Professor Finlay, Professor George and Tanni Grey-Thompson deserve to be widely read and heeded.
Stephen Daisley, writing in The Spectator, says Parliament must “draw the line at self-destruction. If the life of the individual is not inviolable, then nor are the rights that life confers.”
tephen Daisley, writing in The Spectator, explains the dangers of assisted suicide and says Parliament must “draw the line at self-destruction. If the life of the individual is not inviolable, then nor are the rights that life confers.” The British Medical Association...
Simon Caldwell is right: Assisted suicide is the opposite of death with dignity.
Simon Caldwell is right: Assisted suicide is the opposite of death with dignity: "the myth that only a lethal cocktail of drugs or a deadly jab can deliver a beautiful and serene death is a romantic fantasy, the stuff of movies….Although some patients die relatively...
Dr.Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury, powerfully sets out the case against changing the law on “assisted dying“.
In a Statement to the British Medical Journal Dr.Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury, powerfully sets out the case against changing the law on assisted dying-“those resisting legal change include a large proportion of those most directly involved in...
John Kelly, director of ‘Second Thoughts’, says “as someone paralyzed below the shoulders, I am terrified of the prospect of a state law sponsoring people’s suicides as rational responses to disability.”
Push for assisted suicide raises questions over disability rights John Kelly, Massachusetts -based director of the disability rights group Second Thoughts, which opposes the legalization of assisted suicide, says in the Boston Global that “as someone paralyzed below...
Charles Moore: Meacher Bill pushes assisted suicide not ‘assisted dying’. It’s “the legislative equivalent of vexatious litigation”.
Charles Moore: Meacher Bill pushes assisted suicide not ‘assisted dying’ The latest attempt to legalise assisted suicide in England and Wales has been described as “the legislative equivalent of vexatious litigation” by Charles Moore (Lord Moore of Etchingham), the...
Welsh politician, television presenter, and former wheelchair racer, Tanni (Baroness) Grey-Thompson is right in warning about “mission creep” towards euthanasia in the new assisted dying Bill and warns that “for many disabled people it’s not difficult to see the writing on the wall….To ignore this is to court danger.”
Dying mission creep SIR – Baroness Meacher’s Bill on assisted dying doesn’t explicitly target disabled people. But for many disabled people it’s not difficult to see the writing on the wall. I was struck by a statement a few years ago by a group calling itself the...
New report calls for overdue radical improvements in end of life palliative care – providing a new gold standard of “hospice quality” care in all settings focusing on those dying at home.
New report calls for overdue radical improvements in end of life palliative care - providing a new gold standard of “hospice quality” care in all settings focusing on those dying at home. In a major new report today the Institute of Public Policy Research say that the...
Dominic Lawson gets it in one: allow euthanasia and “Those who would be put at greatest risk are the most vulnerable; and their voices are never heard.”
Dominic Lawson looks at how Government Ministers looking to make financial savings may give a green light to euthanasia: Sunday Times May 9th 2021 Sometimes political developments that seem unconnected are deeply intertwined — and you don’t have to be a conspiracy...
For 18 years David Alton was a Member of the House of Commons and today he is an Independent Crossbench Life Peer in the UK House of Lords.
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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...
Meeting in Parliament to highlight the malign effects of Hong Kong’s Article 23 on human rights; to examine its impact on media freedom, in advance of World Press Freedom Day on May 3rd; to express solidarity with Jimmy Lai and 1841 other imprisoned pro democracy advocates; and to consider how Hong Kong’s Security Laws impact on civil society, the diaspora and contribute to transnational repression. Contributions from Benedict Rogers, Steve Vines, Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC, and Carmen Lau. The banning of a Simpsons episode about the Tiananmen Square massacre “Nothing Happened Here” cited as an example of the suppression of truth.
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...
British universities and Chinese money
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...