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...
Danny Kruger MP is right “There’s a better way of dying than assisted suicide.” Changing the law is providing a one way, no return, ticket to death.
Danny Kruger MP is right “There’s a better way of dying than assisted suicide.” Changing the law is providing a one way, no return, ticket to death. Danny Kruger Wednesday September 15 2021, 9.00pm, The Times Danny Kruger MP is right “There’s a better way of dying...
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...
Today’s Telegraph- why “Assisted dying is a crude response to suffering” and why “Given the epidemic of suicides in the UK – around 6,000 per year – it would seem unwise to take action that might increase this number”
Assisted dying is a crude response to suffering SIR – It’s simply not true that people are denied control at the end of their lives under the current law (Letters, June 3).The law is framed to give clear rights to refuse unwanted intervention. Helping people do...
Professor Katherine Sleeman on why helping people to commit suicide is not in society’s interests and crosses a dangerous line.
Professor Katherine Sleeman writing today in The Daily Telegraph SIR – We have been told that public sentiment is now behind changing the law on assisted dying (report, June 1), with a recent opinion poll finding that 84 per cent support legalisation. However, polls...
Silent Witness actress, Liz Carr, becomes Vocal Witness, writing in today’s Sunday Times in opposition to a Bill requiring doctors to assist suicides. And why The Times concluded that a new Bill is a bad idea.
Letter to the Sunday Times from Silent Witness actress Liz Carr At the sharp endIn September 2015, MPs voted 330-118 against legalising assisted suicide. What has changed in the past six years for the matter to return to parliament? Then, as now, the majority of...
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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