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Press Release – Anscombe Centre Shines Light on Equality and Suicide Prevention Concerns Regarding ‘Assisted Dying’ Bill Ahead of Key Vote
Ahead of the votes on Report Stage (continuing on 13 June 2025) and Third Reading (possibly 20 June 2025) on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, the Anscombe Bioethics Centre has released two new papers. These complete the Centre’s analyses of three documents that the Government has produced on the impact and implications of legalising assisted suicide in England and Wales through this Bill.
Press Release – Anscombe Centre Publishes Analysis of a Sinister Document About a Sinister Bill
The Anscombe Bioethics Centre has published an analysis of the Government’s Impact Assessment of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, which suggests that over time public money could be saved by the early death of thousands of patients being caused each year. It is truly a sinister document about a sinister Bill.
Press Statement – Hospices to be Forced to Provide Assisted Suicide
The Anscombe Centre’s statement on the rejection of an amendment to Kim Leadbeater MP’s ‘assisted dying’ Bill that would have protected hospices and other organisations from having to provide assisted suicide on their premises.
Press Release – A New Anscombe Centre Paper Critiques the Assisted Dying Bill & its Implications for Vulnerable Patients
As the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill receives its Report Stage debate today, the Anscombe Centre has published a paper which provides legal analysis of the Bill and its purported safeguards, finding that the Bill fails to provide adequate protections in law for patients most vulnerable to undue pressure and abuse.
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