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Press Release – Anscombe Bioethics Centre Launches ‘Advance Decisions and Ethical Choices’ Project
The Anscombe Bioethics Centre is pleased to launch a new suite of resources on advance statements, lasting powers of attorney (LPAs), and advance decisions to refuse treatment. These new resources are designed to guide users through the ethical and legal dimensions of advance planning of medical treatment, and to make decisions in accordance with Catholic moral teaching about end-of-life care.
Statement on the Anscombe Bioethics Centre
A statement from the Governing Body of the Anscombe Bioethics Centre and the Trustees of the Catholic Trust for England and Wales explaining the financial reasons behind the Centre's closure with an assurance that its resources will remain available to the Catholic community, and wider society, in perpetuity.
Copyright Announcement
Henceforth, all work which had Anscombe Centre or Linacre Centre copyright is now dedicated to the public domain (Creative Commons Zero). Details herein.
The Closure of the Anscombe Bioethics Centre
It is with immense sadness we announce that staff have recently been informed of ‘the closure of the Anscombe Bioethics Centre, Oxford’.
Showcase
A showcase selection of the work of the Anscombe Bioethics Centre, from noteworthy research, events, and media presentations.
Research
A virtual library of essays and articles by past and present staff members of the Anscombe Bioethics Centre. Our briefing papers, offering in-depth analysis of fast-moving issues, are also available here.
Sincerest Thanks for Your Support
Staff are grateful to all those who sustained the Centre in the past by their prayers and the generous financial support from trusts, organisations, communities and especially from individual donors, including the core funding that came through the Day for Life fund and so from the generosity of many thousands of parishioners. We would finally like to acknowledge the support the Centre has received from the Catholic community in Ireland, especially during the pandemic when second collections were not possible.
We would like to emphasise that, though the Centre is now closed, these donations have not been wasted but have helped educate and support generations of conscientious healthcare professionals, clerics, and lay people over almost 50 years. This support has also helped prevent repeated attempts to legalise euthanasia or assisted suicide in Britain and Ireland from 1993 till the end of the Centre’s work on 31 July 2025.