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I’M pleased I’m not alone in being gravely concerned that the deeply flawed assisted suicide Bill that was published at 10pm on Monday November 11 has only been subject to a little over two weeks of scrutiny and five hours of parliamentary debate before going to a vote at second reading this Friday.
The drumbeat for Kim Leadbeater’s Bill started in September with the conveniently timed verdict of a so-called “citizens’ jury,” commissioned by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics (NCoB).
You might have thought juries condemning people to death in this country were a thing of the past. August 1964 was the last time a death sentence passed by a British jury was carried out.
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CHRIS WHITEHOUSE calls out the agenda of the assisted suicide lobby as Matthew Parris admits its the introduction would not just risk putting the terminally under pressure to lift the burden they place on others, but that this would be a ‘good thing’
CHRIS WHITEHOUSE argues that changes being put forward to legally allow assisted dying cannot be considered separately from the social conditions that cause the elderly, poor and unwell to suffer while alive
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