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. Warnings from Professor Finlay, Professor George and Tanni Grey-Thompson deserve to be widely read and heeded.
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: "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...
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...
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’ 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...
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. In a major new report today the Institute of Public Policy Research say that the...
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...
Stop Perpetrators Getting Away With Genocide - Public Letter sent to the UK Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary on the Genocide Determination Bill 2023-24. The letter was published this morning, 17 April 2024, 06:00 am UK time. 'First of its kind': Prominent lawyers...
Statement by the All-Part Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Pakistani Minorities, on the anniversary of Iqbal Masih’s murder See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW15xzLt2VI [London, 16 April 2024] Today, the APPG for Pakistani Minorities, a cross-party parliamentary...
Lord Benyon, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL3650): Question by Lord Alton of Liverpool :To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the warning by...