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CMF has to move. The building in which we are located has been sold to a developer and will be knocked down and replaced by a hotel some time between January and December 2007. The Church Missionary Society, our landlord, has already purchased a new HQ in Oxford and will...
On 9 November 2005 Lord Joffe re-introduced his Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill Bill,[1] the third ‘assisted dying’ bill he has tabled in the House of Lords in as many years. If passed it will enable ‘an adult who has capacity and who is suffering unbearably as a result...
I was personally both stimulated and encouraged by Daniel Strange’s recent Cambridge Paper on the subject of co-belligerence[1] as it has direct relevance for many of the issues we are facing in Public Policy at CMF. ‘Co-belligerence’is a political or military term referring to an alliance of different parties against...
The long-awaited debate on the House of Lords’ Select Committee report on Lord Joffe’s Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill Bill took place on 10 October. In all 74 peers took part in a debate that started at 3pm and finished just before midnight. Speakers were evenly divided for and...
The first involves Lord Joffe's Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill Bill (p4), which requires doctors who are not willing to authorise euthanasia to refer to other doctors who are; a move most Christian doctors would view as complicity in intentional killing. The second involves the Racial and Religious Hatred...
Britain is teetering on the brink of legalising physician assisted suicide (PAS) and possibly also euthanasia as the result of a powerful campaign by proeuthanasia factions to change the opinion of the public, media, politicians and (perhaps most significantly) doctors. Following the House of Lords debate on 10 October on...
The tabloid headline 'Virgin conception first for UK' [1] entered the public consciousness in early September; but the newest 'HFEA-approved' development in embryo research described was simply the next logical step following on from recommendations made by the Warnock Committee in 1984 and subsequently given statutory force in the 1990...
In 2004, CMF went through an immense amount of change and growth. We merged with MMA Healthserve, increased our office space by 200%, imple-mented a new computer system, appointed eight new staff including an Associate General Secretary, supported four ICMDA regional conferences, ran fourteen Saline Solution day conferences, built stronger...
Delegates at the BMA annual representative meeting in Manchester on 30 June 2005 voted 58% to 42% against legalising euthanasia but 53% to 47% in favour of adopting a neutral position, reversing a policy of opposition that had stood for 173 years. The euthanasia motion was passed by 93 votes to...
Survivors and world leaders recently commemorated the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by the advancing Soviet army on 27 January 1945. [1] Auschwitz was the largest of the Nazi death camps, where 1.1 million people died during the Nazi holocaust. However, very little, if any, of the media...
