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Support for assisted suicide losing momentum in Scotland

April 17, 2024

Support for assisted suicide in Scotland has declined significantly, according to recent polls and research. The Journal of Medical Ethics Forum has posted an article by Prof. David Albert Jones, Director of the Anscombe Bioethics Centre, showing that support for assisted suicide in Scotland has lost momentum and could even be waning. Meanwhile, three polls conducted by the pro-assisted-suicide group

Appeal to European Court of Human Rights for comatose patient in NHS care

January 12, 2021

An appeal on behalf of the Polish citizen is being prepared with the European Court of Human Rights, and provision of food and water has been restored pending the appeal.

Gene editing could lead to eugenics, ethicist warns

August 05, 2017

“This aim is the essence of eugenics: not to make people better but to make ‘better’ people.”

Ethicist says embryo breakthrough is a ‘step towards an inhuman future’

May 06, 2016

Researchers have kept embryos alive in a laboratory for 13 days

UK bioethics centre releases data-driven guide to assisted suicide

August 21, 2015

The Anscombe Bioethics Centre says opinion polls have dominated the debate too much

Mark this year’s Day for Life by defending the rights of the sick and disabled

July 23, 2015

If assisted suicide is legalised some patients would be regarded as having lives 'not worth living'

Sydney bishop says at Oxford University: let’s not kill off elderly to cut costs

October 19, 2012

In a lecture Bishop Anthony Fisher says cost-cutting may lead to a compromise on basic moral principles

Life defends its ‘non-directive’ counselling

July 20, 2011

The charity Life has defended its ethics following criticism of its non-directive counselling from a Catholic academic