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The Anscombe Centre Pays Tribute to the Memory of Pope Francis (1936–2025)
The Anscombe Bioethics Centre would like to honour the memory of Pope Francis, who after serious illness died of a stroke and heart failure on Easter Monday morning. The joy of Eastertide is made bittersweet by the passing of a much-loved Pontiff.
Professor David Albert Jones – The Realities of Assisted Suicide
The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, which seeks to legalise assisted suicide in England and Wales, will soon receive Third Reading in the House of Commons. In a new video, the Director of the Anscombe Bioethics Centre, Professor David Albert Jones, exhorts us to look before we leap.
Press Release: New Anscombe Paper Exposes Australia’s Slippery Slope of Euthanasia
A new Briefing Paper by Professor David Albert Jones, Bioethicist and Director of the Anscombe Bioethics Centre in Oxford, has exposed the extent to which Australian jurisdictions have, in a very short period of time, seen the ‘slippery slope’ of extended euthanasia and assisted suicide (EAS) from what was originally intended.
Forthcoming 2025 Anscombe Memorial Lecture
We are pleased to announce that on 10 February 2025 at 4pm, the Anscombe Memorial Lecture will be held in Blackfriars Hall! In the 14th annual Anscombe Memorial Lecture, Dr Trudo Lemmens will speak on ‘Death as Therapy: Unravelling Canada’s Assisted Dying Regime’.
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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.
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