Recent News
It is just under a year and a half ago that I found myself writing a piece called ‘A Black Friday’.
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Recent opinion pieces
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End of life care to become a legal rightFor the first time in the history of the NHS, dying people will have an explicit legal right to healthcare, with every part of England to provide specialist palliative care.
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Legalising Assisted Suicide Leads To Increase In Overall Suicide NumbersNew research suggests countries that legalise assisted suicide also see an overall increase in non-assisted suicide rates.
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Kirk Moderator: It's assisted suicide, not 'assisted dying'The Moderator of the Church of Scotland has criticised language used in controversial legislation that would see terminally ill Scots helped to commit suicide.
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Press Releases
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Major wins in regulation of online pornography
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Scottish Parliament rejects Assisted Suicide Bill
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CARE for Scotland urges MSPs to reject assisted suicide ahead of…
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CARE for Scotland comment: Royal College of Psychiatrists switches to oppose…
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Scottish palliative care group hits out at assisted suicide bill
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Misleading language diminishes the seriousness of assisted suicide
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Ex Tory Minister attempting to force action on assisted suicideA former Conservative Minister is attempting to compel the UK Government to bring forward assisted suicide legislation through a cynical amendment to health and care proposals.
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Bishop: 'Assisted suicide would give unaccountable power to medics'Legalising assisted suicide would hand "unaccountable" power to doctors and risk terrible abuses, a Bishop has warned.
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Scottish Finance Secretary to oppose assisted suicideScotland's Finance Secretary has said she will oppose assisted suicide proposals before Holyrood.
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Irish psychiatrists warn against assisted suicide proposalsThe College of Physicians of Ireland has warned against assisted suicide saying the practice is not compatible with good care and undermines patient safety.
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New CPS guidance could see fewer prosecutions for 'mercy killing'The Crown Prosecution Service intends to water down rules governing the prosecution of so-called 'mercy killing’ cases. A consultation on new draft guidance launches today and will run until April.
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Former MP says loss of children informs opposition to assisted suicideEx MP and MSP Dennis Canavan, who tragically lost four children - three to terminal illness - has urged Scottish parliamentarians to oppose assisted suicide.
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