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This week, MP Kim Leadbeater introduced her private members bill to introduce assisted suicide across England and Wales. The text of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill has not yet…
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Canadian MPs want assisted suicide for children without parental consentA committee of Canada's parliament has called for the country's assisted suicide and euthanasia programme to be extended to "mature minors".
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Scottish Labour leader not convinced by assisted suicideScotland's Labour leader has said he does not "instinctively support" assisted suicide, as Holyrood approaches a debate on new legislation.
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Christian MP speaks out against Assisted Suicide
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Most palliative docs in Scotland would refuse to participate in assisted suicidesThe vast majority of palliative doctors in Scotland would refuse to take part in assisted suicides if the law changes, a survey of medics shows.
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Kirk warns against assisted suicide law
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Canadian Government delays Euthanasia expansion for mental illnessThe Federal Government in Canada has admitted it needs more time before expanding Canada’s highly controversial medical assistance in dying (MAID) policy to include mentally ill people.
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Canadian Paralympian offered assisted suicide when asking for a stairliftA Paralympic army veteran has claimed government officials in Canada offered to giver her euthanasia equipment when she was pushing to have a stairlift installed in her home.
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Assisted suicide 'Groundhog Day' as parliamentary inquiry announcedCARE has decried an assisted suicide 'Groundhog Day' following the announcement of a new parliamentary inquiry into the issue.
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Tragic story highlights need for more palliative careTracey Bennett struggled to access night-time care for her dying father and has told the BBC that he ‘shouldn’t have been expected to die in office hours.”
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Assisted Suicide plans revealed at Toronto’s sick kids’ hospitalDoctors from Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children have published their policies and procedures for administering medically assisted suicide to children, including scenarios where the parents would not be told until after the…
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Palliative care expert issues warning about Jersey assisted suicide proposalsAn expert in palliative medicine has warned Jersey officials not to allow doctor-assisted suicide on the island as the practice would place the most vulnerable at risk.
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Scottish assisted suicide plans a threat to the most marginalised, campaigners sayPlans to legalise doctor-assisted suicide in Scotland would open the door to abuses affecting the most marginalised, campaigners say.
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