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Assisted Dying Bill

Bishops urge Catholics to act to stop Meacher Bill

August 25, 2021

The bishops of England and Wales have urged Catholics to write urgently to peers to ask them to speak against the Assisted Dying Bill when it comes before the House of Lords in the autumn. In the first major intervention by the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales since the introduction of the Private Member’s

Assisted suicides in Switzerland more than double in the last five years

March 09, 2016

The number of suicides have gone from 416 cases in 2011 to 1,004 last year

What this overwhelming defeat means for the assisted suicide lobby

September 11, 2015

Parliament is unlikely to debate another Bill on the issue for years to come

Parliament debates assisted suicide Bill – as it happened

September 11, 2015

Follow our live blog for regular updates on today's debate

Death is not always ‘a terrible tragedy’

September 10, 2015

Death in old age is a natural process which we must all eventually face

The truth assisted suicide supporters won’t face

September 03, 2015

The champions of the Assisted Dying Bill are desperately hoping that Britons will remain ignorant of the euthanasia horror stories emerging from Europe

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'