Retired minister and multiple sclerosis sufferer Campbell Wilson is convinced there should be no change in the assisted suicide laws despite the landmark victory by fellow MS patient Debbie Purdy from Bradford.
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August 1st, 2009
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August 1st, 2009
A record number of lifers, foreigners, Muslims and pagans are in jails in England and Wales, according to figures published yesterday.
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July 31st, 2009
Dignitas, the assisted-suicide facility in Switzerland, is a disgusting, depressing and reprehensible institution. Whatever its claims to rigorous self-regulation, it seeks to offer a consumerist euthanasia to anyone who wants it enough to clear a few perfunctory hurdles.
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July 31st, 2009
An MP has begun a bid to legalise assisted suicide in Britain a day after Debbie Purdy won the right to have the law clarified.
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July 31st, 2009
As Frances Gibb reports today, Debbie Purdie, pictured here, has won an historic victory.
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July 31st, 2009
Italy's drug regulation agency has authorized the use of the abortion pill despite protests from the Roman Catholic church which threatens to excommunicate doctors who prescribe the drug and patients who use it.
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July 31st, 2009
China performs about 13 million abortions every year, mostly for single young women who experts say know little about contraception, state media said Thursday in a rare disclosure of sensitive family planning statistics.
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July 31st, 2009
Family service agencies are missing huge opportunities to help children by focusing only on mothers and ignoring fathers, according to a groundbreaking study by some of the nation?s top family and child development researchers.
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July 30th, 2009
The highest court in the land could today bring about a groundbeaking change in the law on assisted suicide.
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July 30th, 2009
The House of Lords has allowed Debbie Purdy's appeal and required the Director of Public Prosecutions to publish the "facts and circumstances which he will take into account in deciding, in a case such as Ms Purdy's, whether or not to consent to a prosecution". It is important to get this Judgment into perspective; the Law Lords have certainly not condoned assistance with suicide.