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Dr Peter Saunders2010-12-05 15:00:132024-01-22 09:19:06Margo Macdonald’s criticisms of the Care Not Killing Alliance are without foundation
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Dr Peter Saunders2010-12-05 15:00:132024-01-22 09:19:06Margo Macdonald’s criticisms of the Care Not Killing Alliance are without foundation
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Dr Peter Saunders2010-12-01 22:56:242024-01-22 09:19:04Overwhelming defeat for Margo Macdonald’s End of Life Assistance (Scotland) Bill
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Dr Peter Saunders2010-11-30 14:29:392024-01-22 09:19:03The vast majority of the members of Lord Falconer’s new commission on assisted dying are well-known names in the pro-legalisation lobby
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Dr Peter Saunders2010-11-28 12:52:542024-01-22 09:21:05Further disclosures about Lord Falconer’s Commission on Assisted Dying raise more questions about transparency and independence
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Dr Peter Saunders2010-11-27 16:11:272024-01-22 09:19:07By focusing exclusively on HIV/AIDS, malaria and TB, Western governments and NGOs have neglected other easily treatable and curable diseases
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Dr Peter Saunders2010-11-25 16:48:252024-01-22 09:19:10Serious questions raised about status and independence of new Commission on ‘Assisted Dying’
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Dr Peter Saunders2010-11-24 15:20:152024-01-22 09:19:3017th Century lesson for medical students today
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Dr Peter Saunders2010-11-24 14:22:262024-01-22 09:19:30Death of a tea lady – the unforeseen effects of a bad management decision
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Dr Peter Saunders2010-11-22 03:06:192024-01-22 09:19:32Scottish GPs add their voices to those calling for final burial of Scottish ‘End of Life Assistance Bill’. Read final committee conclusions here.
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Dr Peter Saunders2010-11-19 01:42:582024-01-22 09:19:37The Committee scrutinizing Margo MacDonald’s Bill have recommended that it be rejected – now it is time for MSPs finally to bury it
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Dr Peter Saunders2010-11-16 16:53:372024-01-22 09:19:10‘We have a charge from Christ to care for the weakest in society’ – Dr Trevor Stammers speaks on Channel 4 about abortion
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Dr Peter Saunders2010-11-16 14:17:492024-01-22 09:19:40Don’t believe everything you read in the Washington Post – a compendium of the most recent medical evidence linking abortion and mental health
Why is an offshoot of a euthanasia pressure group launching a ‘how-to-die’ helpline?
I see that staff of Dignity in Dying, formerly the Voluntary Euthanasia Society, are planning to set up the UK’s first helpline aimed at speeding the terminally ill towards ‘a good death’. The free phone line, is to be set up under the auspices of DID’s sister organisation Compassion in Dying, a registered charity. The […]
‘Doing God’ is good for your health
Practising Christian faith is good for your health. That’s the verdict of a new report which shows that the faithful live longer and remain healthier. At a time when the health service is facing financial cuts and government is seeking ways to enhance happiness, the report shows that politicians who say ‘We don’t do God’ […]
Government fails in bid to keep statistics on late abortions secret
The Government has failed in a High Court bid to keep secret information on late abortions which it claimed might lead to the identification of individual women involved. A judge today upheld the Information Tribunal’s earlier decision to disclose ‘sensitive’ data from national statistics to the ProLife Alliance. The judge also put a stay on any […]
Pro-euthanasia campaigners use of celebrities to boost support may well fuel more suicides
Columnist Melanie Philips this week, in an article titled ‘Why are the Left (and the BBC) so keen to promote this ghoulish culture of death?’ highlights the growing use of celebrity endorsement for a change in the law. First, we learned that the BBC plans to screen a documentary this summer in which novelist and […]
Why I told the Daily Mail that the BBC was acting as the ‘cheerleader’ for assisted suicide
Last Friday I was quoted on the front page of the Daily Mail as saying that the BBC was acting as ‘cheerleader’ in the campaign to legalise assisted suicide. This article amplifies those comments and gives some of the wider background. The BBC have recently filmed a man killing himself at the notorious Dignitas suicide […]
Unless we reverse demographic trends the generation that killed its children may well be killed by its children
Low fertility rates and an ageing population will present Europe with a big economic challenge. This was one of the points made in a study published by the European Commission at the start of the month. The ‘Third Demography Report’ found that the number of children per woman has increased from 1.45 children, at the time of […]
New genetic screening plans raise serious questions about our attitudes to disability
The Human Genetics Commission (HGC), a government advisory committee, has given the green light to preconception genetic tests saying that there are no specific ‘social, ethical or legal’ reasons that stand in the way. The UK National Screening Committee will now consider this advice as it decides whether widespread screening should be introduced in GP […]
The Royal College of Psychiatrists consultation on abortion and mental health – let’s put this into perspective
Some people have expressed concern about an article published in the Daily Telegraph yesterday which reported on a new consultation by the Royal College of Psychiatrists looking at the relationship between abortion and mental health. The Telegraph headline ‘Abortion doesn’t harm mothers’ mental health’ is actually seriously misleading and the whole piece is somewhat simplistic, […]
Live blog: new mood of militancy among nurses
CMF’s Head of Allied Professions, Steve Fouch (pictured below), is at the RCN Congress in Liverpool. He’s giving us live text, tweet and blog updates as events unfold. Keep following this blog post for further updates. Monday 11 April 2011 13.01 The Royal College of Nursing Congress in Liverpool got off to a heated start […]
Dorries and Field are not pro-life but their abortion amendments are a small step in the right direction
If you type ‘abortion’ into Google News these days you will find that most of the reports thrown up are from the US; and most involve new legislation aimed at curbing abortion rates. A whole host of bills are being introduced in different states aimed at whittling away the abortion law: bills requiring the offer […]
Nan Maitland’s assisted suicide demonstrates the incremental extension that will follow any change in the law
According to the Sunday Times, an 84 year old British woman committed suicide at a Swiss facility last month because she did not want to die of old age. Nan Maitland (pictured), who suffered from arthritis but was active and not terminally ill, left a note saying she wished to escape the ‘long period of […]
Missing midwives costs mothers’ lives
On 1 April 2011 Save the Children launched a campaign to find the missing midwives. Save the Children’s recent research suggests that globally we need 350,000 midwives, and that this shortage of skilled birth attendants means as few as 6% of women in some developing countries have access to skilled birth attendants. As a result […]