Assisted dying – ‘citizens’ juries’ are not all they seem
CHRIS WHITEHOUSE shines a light on the far from neutral tactics used to lobby for assisted suicide and create momentum for its legalisation in Britain
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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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