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2nd of April

The assisted dying bill still doesn't do enough to protect domestic abuse victims


PoliticsHome

1st of April

Labour MPs want to delay assisted dying vote to focus on local elections

 


The Guardian

1st of April

Press MPs to reject end of life bill, cardinal urges Catholics


The Times

1st of April

Entire Assisted Dying Bill may be beyond powers of Holyrood


Scottish Legal News

1st of April

New amendment to reduce assisted dying implementation deadline to three years


Politics.co.uk

1st of April

Spinning doctors: Supporters of assisted suicide are repelling rather than persuading doctors


The Critic

30th of March

Labour MP Naz Shah turns on Kim Leadbeater’s ‘fundamentally flawed’ assisted dying bill


The Independent

30th of March

The assisted dying bill was doomed almost from the start


The Morning Star

27th of March

The vile assisted suicide Bill is on its last legs. Now let's kill it off


The Telegraph

27th of March

Has the Assisted Dying Bill been killed off?


The Spectator

27th of March

The promised safeguards for assisted dying are being eroded


The Times

26th of March

Assisted dying bill is ‘flawed and dangerous’ after changes, says group of Labour MPs


The Guardian

26th of March

Government concerns over assisted dying timeline


The BBC

19th of March

From worrying to worse: the assisted dying Bill has lost its safeguards


The Morning Star

17th of March

Doctors insist they are not ‘neutral’ on assisted dying


The Times

14th of March

The Royal College of GPs’ curious assisted dying U-turn


The Spectator

14th of March

Why I’m losing faith in the assisted dying bill


The Times

14th of March

Disabled 'will feel forced to end lives' by combination of assisted dying law and slashed benefits, British paralympics star reveals


The Daily Mail

14th of March

UK GPs body drops opposition to assisted dying and moves to neutrality

 


The Guardian

14th of March

Assisted dying ‘would be lethal weapon’ in hands of abusers


The Telegraph

14th of March

Assisted dying laws could be ‘lethal weapon’ for domestic abusers, MSPs warned


The Scotsman

12th of March

The flawed assisted dying bill is moving too quickly


The Times

12th of March

MPs scrap judge sign-off in assisted dying bill


The BBC

12th of March

Assisted dying and the difficulties of predicting end of life


The British Medical Journal

11th of March

MPs must understand the history of the assisted dying bill


PoliticwHome

10th of March

BMA consultants sound alarm on assisted dying


The Spectator

8th of March

Jo Cox’s sister shares safety fears after abuse over assisted dying bill


The Independent

6th of March

Safeguarding assisted dying—court or committee?


The British Medical Journal

3rd of March

Assisted dying plan outsources provision to private companies


The Times

2nd of March

As an anorexic, I’d have longed for assisted dying


The Times

1st of March

The assisted-dying bill gets more dangerous by the day


Spiked

26th of February

Assisted dying could be the next Horizon scandal, claims Labour MP


The Telegraph

25th of February

First place in British Isles set to approve right to die

The BBC

24th of February

Assisted dying: Father with MND says ‘antiquated’ law must change

The Guardian

21st of February

Assisted dying Bills aim to ‘fix problem’, says ex-MP whose father took own life


The Independent

21st of February

Legalising assisted dying in England and Wales ‘may hamper suicide prevention work’


The Guardian

20th of February

Social workers too busy for assisted dying panels, Leadbeater told


The Telegraph

19th of February

My life is at risk under Canada's assisted dying law. Don't follow it


The Herald

18th of February

Has Keir Starmer lost his nerve over the assisted dying bill?


The Times

18th of February

It's women who will pay the price for assisted dying


The Telegraph

18th of February

Social Workers to play key role in assisted dying panels under proposed


Social Work News

18th of February

The assisted-dying bill is unravelling before our eyes


Spiked

17th of February

Why changes to assisted dying bill are cause for concern


The Guardian

17th of February

Psychiatrist shortage could derail assisted dying bill

The Spectator

17th of February

‘Not enough psychiatrists’ to make assisted dying Bill work

The Telegraph

16th of February

Voices that oppose the assisted dying bill aren’t ‘noise’. They are vital scrutiny


The Observer

15th of February

Patients deserve better than this slapdash assisted dying bill


The Sunday Times

14th of February

Chris Whitty admits he got assisted dying evidence wrong


The Telegraph

14th of February

The concerted attack on assisted dying won’t stop the public supporting this bill


The Guardian

14th of February

Assisted dying bill critics attack plan for ‘civil service tsar’ to oversee panels


The Guardian

13th of February

‘Death tsar’ proposal energises opponents of assisted dying bill


The Times

13th of February

Justice chief suggested assisted dying bill drop court safeguard


The Times

13th of February

Kim Leadbeater can’t rule out patients choosing assisted dying to save money


The Telegraph

12th of February

Assisted dying bill: experts warn of ‘slippery slope’ of amendments


The Times

12th of February

First MPs U-turn on support for assisted dying bill after High Court judge safeguard removed


The Independent

11th of February

Plan to scrap high court signoff for assisted dying sends bill in ‘wrong direction’, say MPs


The Guardian

11th of February

James Cleverly slams 'Orwellian' assisted dying bill as High Court judge sign-off to be scrapped


LBC

11th of February

My false diagnosis exposes a key flaw in the Assisted Dying Bill


The Spectator

11th of February

TSSA leader and Disability Labour chair urge Starmer to oppose Assisted Dying Bill


Morning Star

11th of February

Do not strip judges out of assisted dying decisions, warns Lady Hale


The Financial Times

11th of February

The assisted dying bill treats professionals as infallible – they aren’t


PoliticsHome

11th of February

How the assisted dying bill could unleash male violence


The New Statesman

11th of February

Has Kim Leadbeater scuppered assisted dying bill by dropping judge?


The Times

10th of February

Replacing judge with experts strengthens assisted dying bill, MP says


BBC

10th of February

Assisted dying evidence ‘one-sided’, claims Labour MP

The Telegraph

10th of February

Kim Leadbeater: ‘The assisted dying bill is rightly facing unprecedented scrutiny’

Labour List

9th of February

Can’t we book the assisted dying bill a flight to Dignitas?


The Times

7th of February

The Times view on flaws in the process for Kim Leadbeater’s bill: Skewed Reasoning


The Times

7th of February

Labour MPs criticise ‘biased and rushed’ assisted dying debate


The Times

6th of February

Government accused of ‘quietly and wrongly’ backing assisted dying


The Independent

6th of February

Assisted dying could be used by neurodegenerative disease patients with 12-month life expectancy


The Telegraph

6th of February

MPs push for assisted dying to be expanded to people with a year left to live


The Independent

5th of February

End of life care ‘not working’ for dying people or their families, say campaigners


The Guardian

4th of February

Assisted dying was debated less than foxhunting, cardinal warns


The Times

4th of February

Assisted dying bill ‘will harm efforts to stop more suicides’


The Times

3rd of February

The 'father of assisted dying' helped three of his relatives kill themselves. His sinister life story highlights the flaws at the heart of today's Bill


Mail Online

3rd of February

MPs warned over lack of drug oversight in assisted dying bill


The Times

30th of January

Psychiatrists ‘can’t assess if patients have mental capacity to want to end their lives’


The Telegraph

29th of January

If liberals oppose the death penalty, they must oppose assisted dying too


The Telegraph

29th of January

Terminally ill ‘do not have free choice’ on assisted dying


The Telegraph

28h of January

The Times view on debating the assisted dying bill: Free Choice


The Times

28th of January

Chris Whitty calls for simple assisted dying rules – but his evidence could not be more complicated


The Telegraph

27th of January

Kim Leadbeater in ‘daily’ talks on assisted dying bill amendments


The Times

27th of January

Is assisted dying a ‘clear and present danger’ to people with disabilities? New US film asks tough questions


The Guardian

27th of January

Diabetic MP’s bid to ensure her condition is not included as cause for assisted death


The Independant

26th of January

‘Right to die’ must not become a duty, says former home secretary


The Times

23rd of January

The Committee to scrutinise the Assisted Dying Bill seems bent on avoiding real scrutiny


Conservative Home

22nd of January

‘Blank cheque’ given to Labour MP’s assisted dying Bill


The Telegraph

21st of January

Despite MPs hopes, Leadbeater’s assisted dying legislation cannot be fixed at committee stage


Conservative Home

16th of January

Canada has adopted assisted dying faster than anywhere on Earth


The Economist

16th of January

Sir Peter Bottomley reviews 'The Reality of Assisted Dying'


PoliticsHome

16th of January

I don’t want to hear MPs’ personal testimonies in parliament. Issues like assisted dying are for heads, not hearts


The Times

15th of January

Doctors to speak out against changes to proposed assisted dying law in England and Wales


The Guardian

7th of January

I don’t want to hear MPs’ personal testimonies in parliament. Issues like assisted dying are for heads, not hearts


The Guardian

6th of January

St Andrews student with terminal cancer warns against assisted dying law


The Courier

4th of January

Could Esther Rantzen think twice on assisted suicide?


The Critic

3rd of January

Government would be ‘foolish’ to ignore palliative care warnings over assisted dying


The Guardian

2nd of January

Could assisted dying for 'terminal anorexia' be coming to the NHS?


The BMJ

1st of January

Esther Rantzen fought for ‘assisted dying’. Now she’s surely killed it off


The Telegraph

29th of December

Up to 30 MPs who backed assisted dying bill could withdraw support at next vote


The Guardian

28th of December

The assisted suicide debate is not over


The Critic

20th of December

Why Japan struggles with assisted dying


Prospect

19th of December

'It's being abused:' Group that led campaign for MAID is now calling for safeguards


The National Post

18th of December

Family sues after man allegedly got medically assisted death during day pass from hospital


The CBC

18th of December

Kim Leadbeater has stacked the deck on assisted dying


The Telegraph

16th of December

We need hospice wards in hospitals


The HSJ

16th of December

Assisted dying: Do we understand it properly?


The Irish Times

13th of December

Assisted dying drug to cost state £80 per dose


The Times

12th of December

Assisted dying now accounts for one in 20 Canada deaths


The BBC

10th of December

Chancellor Rachel Reeves dodges questions on funding for assisted dying


The Independent

5th of December

Why the UK’s assisted dying bill won’t work


Mercator

4th of December

As our politicians back 'assisted dying', beware the Codger Catchers


The Herald

4th of December

The six-figure tax problem looming over Labour’s assisted dying law


The Telegraph

3rd of December

Reckless Terminally Ill Adults Bill requires urgent scrutiny


The Express

3rd of December

Anti-assisted dying MPs demand place on bill committee


The Times

3rd of December

‘MPs have approved the basic principles of assisted dying – the details require further work for us all’


Labour List

3rd of December

MPs daren’t admit the awful truth about ‘assisted dying


The Telegraph

1st of December

The 'safeguards' in this assisted dying Bill are just a rubber-stamping exercise. The laws that governed the death penalty were safer


The Daily Mail

1st of December

New plan would ‘transform’ end of life care for 100,000 in England and Wales


The Guardian

30th of November

Opponents of assisted dying bill are already plotting to derail its legislation - with the backing of just 28 MPs needed to defeat it at the next vote


The Daily Mail

28th of November

Assisted dying will heap pressure on broken services, ministers warn


The Times

29th of November

Before voting on assisted dying today, I urge MPs to remember the definition of insanity


The Independent

28th of November

MPs may trust doctors to manage assisted dying. Disabled people like me cannot


The Guardian

28th of November

We are political opponents, but we agree: the assisted dying bill should not pass


The Telegraph

28th of November

Assisted dying bill will not be adopted as government bill if it passes vote


The Guardian

28th of November

The Times view on assisted dying bill: Indecent Haste 


The Times

28th of November

An irreversible step


The Critic

28th of November

The assisted dying bill does not protect sick and disabled people


The Financial Times

28th of November

Assisted dying bill: 'Oregon is no assisted dying utopia'


Labour List

28th of November

Assisted dying posterboy told friend he might have chosen to live if given proper care


The Telegraph

27th of November

David Cameron: Why I’m now backing assisted dying


The Times

26th of November

Sadiq Khan reveals he is against the Assisted Dying Bill - and explains why


The Standard

26th of November

Mass advertising campaigns on assisted dying spark anger among MPs


The Guardian

26th of November

Dominic Grieve: human rights convention will block assisted dying bill


The Times

26th of November

Three former Tory prime ministers oppose assisted dying Bill


The Telegraph

26th of November

Global deaths from assisted dying surpass 30,000 in a year


The Telegraph

26th of November

Why I cancelled my trip to Dignitas


The Spectator

26th of November

Assisted dying could have major impact on courts, says ex-chief justice


The Guardian

26th of November

I was paralysed by a sudden illness - this is why I’m against assisted dying


The Independent

26th of November

We’ve always had assisted dying – it used to be ‘the code’


The Telegraph

23rd of November

Spending time with people in their final days showed me that we need not assisted dying, but better end-of-life care


The Guardian

23rd of November

UK justice secretary attacks assisted dying bill as ‘state death service’


The Guardian

23rd of November

Assisted Dying amendments ignore major flaws in Bill


UnHerd

23rd of November

Do no harm: the progressive case against assisted dying


The Spectator

21th of November

Gordon Brown backs commission on end of life care before MPs decide on assisted dying


The Independent

20th of November

Assisted dying bill will allow families to go ‘doctor shopping’ to end lives of relatives


The Independent

20th of November

Kim Leadbeater’s “safeguards” won’t keep people safe


The Critic

20th of November

Legalising assisted dying ‘curbs progress in hospice care’


The Telegraph

20th of November

UK’s longest-serving MPs issue joint plea for Commons to reject assisted dying bill


The Guardian

18th of November

'Miscalculation' over government's handling of assisted dying issue'


Sky News

17th of November

Cancel study into the cost to NHS of assisted dying, Harman tells Streeting


The Observer

17th of November

I fully supported assisted dying. Then my sister chose death at 31


The Times

17th of November

Assisted dying bill ‘could open door to involuntary euthanasia’


The Telegraph

13th of November

Assisted dying law would hit other NHS care - Streeting


BBC

12th of November

Keir Starmer: I haven’t decided on assisted dying yet


The Times

13th of November

Brits want new assisted dying laws to go even further, poll reveals


LBC

12th of November

The Dutch woman, 22, who decided not to die at the last moment


The Times

11th of November

Alex Ruck Keene KC on assisted dying: 'Parliamentarians are being radically unsupported'

PoliticsHome

11th of November

A Pattern of Noncompliance


The New Atlantis

11th of November

Assisted dying unites Kemi Badenoch and Diane Abbott in fears over safeguards


The Independent

10th of November

My assisted dying bill will have the strictest safeguards in the world


PoliticsHome

7th of November

Bristol MP and Cabinet Member Darren Jones to ‘abstain or vote against’ assisted dying bill 


ITV News

30th of October

Hospice UK urged to drop ‘neutral’ stance on assisted dying 


The Telegraph

30th of October

Assisted Dying : What Role For The Judge? - Sir James Munby

The Transparency Project

1st of November

MPs who are also medics urge colleagues to support assisted dying bill

The Guardian

4th of November

David Montgomery: As MPs are realising, assisted dying is an issue far too complex to be rushed


ConservativeHome

1st of November

Doubts raised over judges’ role in allowing assisted dying cases to succeed


The Telegraph

1st of November

Why I will vote against assisted dying - Highland MP speaks out ahead of Westminster vote


The Inverness Courier

31st October

Ed Davey suggests he will vote against assisted dying bill


The Express

30th October

We're way beyond the slippery slope. We need new criteria for MAID


The National Post

20th October

End of life care in England and Wales can’t cope with demand, say doctors opposed to assisted dying


The Guardian

30th October

David Oliver: If assisted dying is legalised, can we safeguard against misuse?


THE BMJ

30th October

B.C. judge halts woman's medically assisted death


CTV News

27th October

MPs’ opposition to assisted dying bill grows amid criticism of lack of debate


The Guardian

25th October

Hospices fear losing donations if they speak out on assisted dying


The Telegraph

24th October

Welsh parliament rejects support for assisted dying


The Independent

22ndOctober

Assisted dying is a women's issue. So why are we being left out of the debate?


Glamour Magazine

22nd October

Wes Streeting to vote against assisted dying bill


The Times

20th October

End of life care in England and Wales can’t cope with demand, say doctors opposed to assisted dying


The Guardian

18th October

Committee reviewing euthanasia in Canada finds some deaths driven by homelessness fears, isolation


AP News

16th October

‘It’s social murder’ — is Canada’s assisted dying a model or a warning?


The Times

15th October

Tanni Grey-Thompson: Disabled people aren’t ‘inspiration porn’


Prospect

15th October

As a GP, I see how assisted dying would be a recipe for abuse


The Telegraph

15th October

Terminally ill could end their life if two doctors and a judge agree


The Times

15th October

As a GP, I see how assisted dying would be a recipe for abuse


The Telegraph

14th October

TV star's heartfelt message to Americans about assisted dying


The Daily Mail

6th October

Is Britain ready for “assisted dying”?


The New Statesman

6th October

Assisted dying would hurl a grenade at the floundering NHS


The I

5th October

The assisted dying bill is the latest argument of the progress junkie


The Times

5th October

Extend assisted dying to those without terminal illness, say Labour MPs


The Telegraph

3rd October 2024

MPs to get first vote on assisted dying for nine years


The BBC

22nd September 2024

A rushed UK law is no way to make such a vital, painful decision as how to die


The Guardian

16th September 2024

Canada's assisted death rush is a grim warning


The Times

7th September 2024

State of end-of-life care in Britain means we are not ready for assisted dying, Streeting suggests


The Telegraph

22nd August 2024

Issues with assisted dying bill must be addressed


Law Society of Scotland

18th August 2024

Public fears doctors would encourage assisted dying to ease NHS pressures, poll finds


The Telegraph

19th July 2024

'I've killed more than 400 of my patients - many more deserve to die'


The Times

21st June 2024

The principle of assisted dying - and the practice.


The Guardian

30th May 2024

'I was offered assisted dying over cancer treatment'


UnHerd

14th May 2024

'Better Off Dead?' - click here to view the documentary on BBC iPlayer


BBC iPlayer

14th May 2024

Better Off Dead? review - Liz Carr's blistering film may well change your mind on assisted dying


The Guardian

1st May 2024

I can truly see the case for assisted dying. But the horrific state of the NHS makes me question if its the best idea.


The Guardian

28th April 2024

Don't assume we will get assisted dying right


The Times

9th April 2024

Expand Belgian euthanasia laws to prevent social care crisis, says insurance boss

The Times

8th April 2024

When the right to die becomes the duty to die, who will step in to save those most at risk?


The Guardian

2nd April 2024

'I'm 28. And I'm scheduled to die in May.'


The Free Press

24th March 2024

Only Irish exceptionalism can explain the rush to legislate for assisted dying


The Irish Times

16th March 2024

Why we don't need another vote on euthanasia 


The Spectator

3rd March 2024

Thousands of doctors voice opposition to law that would legalise assisted dying


The Sunday Post

20th February 2024

Woman found father deadafter he took assisted dying drugs meant for someone else, Queensland inquest hears


The Guardian

1st February 2024

Canada again delays assisted dying for the mentally ill


BBC News

1st January 2024

Why assisted dying should remain illegal


The Guardian