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Around 1,000 doctors urge MPs to vote against ‘unsafe’ assisted dying Bill
- MPs will vote on 20 June on a bill allowing terminally ill adults in England and Wales with six months to live to request assisted dying.
- This bill follows earlier parliamentary stages and proposals but faces opposition from about 1,000 doctors worried about inadequate safeguards and patient risks.
- Doctors warn the bill risks coercion of vulnerable groups, widening social inequalities, and relies on inaccurate six-month prognoses made by doctors nearly 40% of the time.
- Senior medical professionals, including several honored with OBEs and CBEs, have described the bill as a serious risk to patient safety and the healthcare workforce, urging MPs to vote against its passage.
- If passed, the bill is expected to have significant consequences for families, healthcare workers, and end-of-life care, prompting calls for more comprehensive debate and safeguards.
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Australia is no model for assisted dying
Australian laws on voluntary assisted dying (VAD) are deemed so similar to the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill that three quarters of overseas witnesses invited to give evidence to MPs were from Australia. “This is not a revolutionary law reform,” Alex Greenwich, a politician from New South Wales, told the bill’s scrutiny committee earlier this year. “It has been tried and tested, we have appropriate safeguards in place throughout Austr…
UK Bill Would Allow Horrific Suicide Machines People Use to Kill Themselves
Kim Leadbeater has refused to distance herself from the Sarco gas chamber assisted suicide pods after she failed to back an amendment to her Bill, which would ban the use of the portable gas chambers. Sarco inventor Philip Nitschke, who is nicknamed “Dr Death” and “the Elon Musk of assisted suicide”, said he is “absolutely” keen on bringing his Sarco suicide machine to the UK if the assisted suicide Bill passes, and described his machine as a “s…
'Kill the pain, not me' - campaign against euthanasia launched
A campaign against euthanasia and for better palliative care was launched on Tuesday by the Life Network Foundation, the same group campaigning against the introduction of abortion.The campaign calls on the public to contribute to the government's consultation on euthanasia via a new platform oqtollugigh.org, to ensure their voice in heard.The name of the campaign...
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