Mar 16, 2022
The House of Lords has tonight voted to reject Lord Forsyth’s proposals for a Bill to legalise assisted suicide by 179 votes to 145 votes in a landmark vote. Lords-Win-PR-1Download
Oct 22, 2021
The Assisted Dying Bill proceeded from its Second Reading in the House of Lords today – in spite of over 60 Peers speaking to oppose the Bill – as is convention. It is the accepted custom of the House of Lords for Bills to move to Committee Stage without a...
Sep 14, 2021
Responding to the BMA vote on assisted suicide, Danny Kruger MP, chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Dying Well, said: “That even the most activist doctors group could not muster a majority for neutrality on assisted suicide shows just how unpopular it...
Oct 16, 2020
Sourced from: Care Not Killing Beneath the headline grabbing top-line numbers lies a complex picture of medical opinion on the question of whether they should be empowered to end patients’ lives The results of the British Medical Association’s membership survey...
Apr 24, 2019
Sourced from: Care Not Killing In 2019 the Populus poll, commissioned by Dignity in Dying (formerly the Voluntary Euthanasia Society), asked respondents: ‘Currently it is illegal for a doctor to help someone with a terminal illness to end their life, even if the...
