High court judges today took a step towards allowing doctors to help their desperately ill or dying patients to kill themselves.
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January 27th, 2012
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January 27th, 2012An alarming number of under-age girls – some as young as nine – are being forced into marriage in Islington, according to a leading campaign group.
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January 26th, 2012Three days after bombings and a shooting spree by militant Islamist group Boko Haram left more than 200 people dead in northern Nigeria, a joint military task force arrested 158 suspected members of the group, CNN reports.
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January 26th, 2012The courts are endangering religious freedom because the judiciary are giving it a lower priority than equality, a leading philosopher has claimed.
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January 26th, 2012British people have become less honest in the last decade, according to a study suggesting moral decline.
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January 26th, 2012The proposal by Margo MacDonald MSP to allow certain people in Scotland to help seriously ill people take their own lives (your report, 25 January) is very concerning.
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January 26th, 2012End-of-life care and euthanisia will be debated when a leading figure in palliative care from the United Kingdom visits the Isle of Man next month.
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January 26th, 2012A shadow health minister has resigned from a cross-party group on counselling given to pregnant women by abortion providers, dismissing it as a ‘front’ for those who want it outlawed.
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January 25th, 2012
With the exception of abortion, it is hard to think of a more emotive and contentious area of public debate and medical ethics than assisted dying.
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January 25th, 2012Friends of critically-ill Scots could be offered training to help patients take their own lives under a controversial proposal to legalise assisted suicide.