The Assisted Suicide Bill is on the ropes – now it needs to be binned permanently
Assisted dying legislation in the UK has entered a pivotal phase, with developments unfolding in both England and Wales and ...
Tag: Assisted Dying
Tanni Grey-Thompson has summed up the horror of the Labour government’s attitude to disabled people
Tanni Grey-Thompson has said that the Labour Party's planned cuts to Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) benefits for chronically ...
Kim Leadbeater’s Assisted Dying Bill is now a clear and present danger to disabled people
Members of the parliamentary committee responsible for the Assisted Dying Bill have dropped the key part of the proposed law ...
Another ‘impartial’ assisted dying group has just been exposed for being nothing of the sort
This article was updated at 6pm on Wednesday 12 March to include comment from the Nuffield Council on Bioethics The ...
Palliative care doctors have collectively raised the alarm over assisted suicide
The Assisted Dying Bill faces strong opposition from the palliative care community, with fears that inadequate services may push vulnerable ...
Labour says feeling like a burden is a reason for assisted suicide – while making disabled people feel like burdens
This week, a friend asked me what the first defining moment of seeing disability portrayed on TV was for me ...
Balram Patel’s father says his son’s death was a case of “forced assisted dying” due to medical negligence
Patients Lives Matter, a patient advocacy group, has announced the dates for the coroner's inquest into the death of Balram ...
#SwindonsSundaySermon: Starmer’s tanking is a threat to us all
This utterly dishonest and thoroughly inept Labour Party government, just seven months after its victory by way of default against ...
The Canary Weekly Round Up: shock Reform, Corbyn’s classism, assisted suicide, big boots, and more
What happened in the news this week from a left-wing, working-class, white, disabled woman's perspective Ok, so where do I ...
Leadbeater’s latest assisted dying U-turn could give Starmer a run for his money – and harm just as many disabled people
In a move that might even give Labour Party PM Keir Starmer a run for his money, Kim Leadbeater has ...
Assisted suicide: death is ugly, but only because of the shocking state of care
The committee hearings for the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill got started this week, and not without controversy. ...
Disability Rights UK and Eat Breath Thrive give crucial evidence to Assisted Dying Committee
Disabled witnesses and people with lived experience of mental health conditions giving evidence to the Assisted Dying Bill committee have ...
U-turn from Assisted Dying Bill Committee is barely a win
In (another) last-minute U-turn, sponsor Kim Leadbeater has finally agreed to hear from a representative of a Deaf and Disabled ...
The Assisted Dying Bill Committee just voted to EXCLUDE key people who don’t agree with it
The first committee meeting of Kim Leadbeater’s assisted dying bill confirmed what many disabled people already knew - and have ...
A woman from Canada with severe ME has been approved for MAiD – but she wants to live
After decades battling severe ME/CFS and systemic lack of support, Marcia Doherty - known online as "Madeline" - is going ...
Just one disabled MP sitting on the Assisted Dying Bill committee shows what a sham it is
Membership of the committee set to scrutinise Kim Leadbeater’s bill to legalise assisted dying shows already that the process will ...
UN Day of Disabled People is a FARCE in a country that wants us all dead
Hello again, on 'IDPD2024!' It’s been a while since I wrote this because among other things, I’ve been deep in ...
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