Dominic Lawson looks at how Government Ministers looking to make financial savings may give a green light to euthanasia: Sunday Times May 9th 2021 Sometimes political developments that seem unconnected are deeply intertwined — and you don’t have to be a conspiracy...
Death by Appointment – important new book by (Baroness) Ilora Finlay and Robert Preston – which explores all the troubling issues around euthanasia/assisted suicide, including the role of doctors and the role of palliative care in ensuring a good death
"Death by Appointment" - is an important new book by (Baroness) Ilora Finlay and Robert Preston - which explores all the troubling issues around euthanasia/assisted suicide, including the role of doctors, and the place of palliative care in ensuring a good death Click...
Same old Assisted Dying plan, same old unresolved problem – that it would put the vulnerable at risk
This op ed by Sir Desmond Swayne MP makes the key point about attempts to legalise assisted dying and euthanasia- it endangers the lives of the vulnerable and its simply not safe to do it. Desmond Swayne: Same old Assisted Dying plan, same old unresolved problem –...
New rules governing euthanasia in Holland ‘will allow doctors to spike patients’ drinks with sleeping pills to stop them becoming violent before lethal injections. Is that really what we want for the United Kingdom?
New rules governing euthanasia in Holland ‘will allow doctors to spike patients’ drinks with sleeping pills to stop them becoming violent before lethal injections’. This further relaxation of Hollands euthanasia laws follows ‘a court ruling that overturned a murder...
Letters to The Times from a leading U.K. lawyer and leading authorities on palliative care – along with a view from the hospices – outlining why it would put vulnerable people at risk to legalise euthanasia/assisted dying
Letters to The Times from a leading U.K. lawyer and leading authorities on palliative care - along with a view from the hospices - outlining why it would put vulnerable people at risk to legalise euthanasia/assisted dying GOOD PALLIATIVE CARE Sir, Judith Magill...
Sad day for New Zealand – following the Netherlands where one in twenty five of all deaths are now a result of euthanasia. Care and Kill are not Interchangeable words. Opposed by New Zealand’s doctors, disability groups, and hospices: a bad law with bad consequences
A Bad Law With Bad Consequences Sad day for New Zealand - following the Netherlands where one in twenty five of all deaths are now a result of euthanasia. Care and Kill are not Interchangeable words. Opposed by New Zealand's doctors, disability groups and hospices: a...
Beware the Laws of Unintended Consequences – and champion the supreme human right: the right to life.
A law that was to be used in exceptional circumstances has led to a staggering 9,563,907 babies losing lives. Now attempts are being made to legalise euthanasia. Beware the law of unintended consequences. Beware the Laws of Unintended Consequences – and champion the...
Nuala O’Loan And David Alton Urge Ireland’s Politicians To Stop and Think Before Backing Euthanasia
Nuala O'Loan And David Alton Urge Ireland's Politicians To Stop and Think Before Backing Euthanasia. TDs should stop and think before permitting the administering of lethal drugs to seriously ill people - and consider what similar legislation has led to elsewhere. Op...
Government answers to questions about the contradictions in policies of the devolved Parliaments and Westminster about children and the ability of grandparents to support their grandchildren because of number restrictions; and a reply about the relationship between euthanasia and suicide rates in the Netherlands.
Lord Bethell, the Department of Health and Social Care, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL8105): Question By Lord Alton of Liverpool:To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the reasons why (1)...
The Links between Depression, Suicide, and Euthanasia – and the responsibilities of broadcasters. Government replies in Parliament.
Baroness Barran, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL7956): Question from Lord Alton of Liverpool (Crossbench Peer): To ask Her Majesty's Government what discussions they...
For 18 years David Alton was a Member of the House of Commons and today he is an Independent Crossbench Life Peer in the UK House of Lords.
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Letter from the Lord (David) Alton and Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP, co chairs of the All Party Parliamentary Group on North Korea, to Lord (David) Cameron, the Foreign Secretary, about the CCP’s forced repatriation of North Korean refugees in breach of both the 1951 Refugee Convention and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
£1 Trillion – Raised In Parliament Today. The Cost of Reparations In Ukraine and Bringing To Justice Those Responsible.
https://youtu.be/xlEfrgwELvc Alongside the fatalities, injuries and chronic suffering and misery which Putin’s war has brought to Ukraine, the economic cost of rebuilding and remedying war damage is now estimated to be close to £1 trillion. Yesterday David...
Stop Perpetrators Getting Away With Genocide – Public Letter sent to the UK Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary on the Genocide Determination Bill 2023-24. The letter was published this morning, 17 April 2024, 06:00 am UK time.
Stop Perpetrators Getting Away With Genocide - Public Letter sent to the UK Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary on the Genocide Determination Bill 2023-24. The letter was published this morning, 17 April 2024, 06:00 am UK time. 'First of its kind': Prominent lawyers...