The blog of the Christian Medical Fellowship
In an interview this morning on BBC Five Live (at 0705) on the Paul Lamb case (listen here) I was asked by the presenter Nicky Campbell about evidence for a slippery slope following the legalisation of euthanasia in other jurisdictions. In my … [Read more...]
Lord Falconer has finally announced that his long awaited assisted suicide bill will be tabled in the House of Lords next week on Wednesday 15 May. It is then that we will finally see the full text of the bill which will then proceed to second … [Read more...]
In February 2012 two bioethicists provoked international outrage with an article advocating infanticide. Writing in the Journal of Medical Ethics (JME), Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva argued in ‘After-birth abortion: why should the … [Read more...]
A 59-year-old Irish woman today lost her Supreme Court challenge to the ban on assisted suicide. Marie Fleming (pictured) is a 59 year old former Irish lecturer who has multiple sclerosis and wanted her partner to be able to help her kill … [Read more...]
A 57 year-old man, who was almost entirely paralysed in a road accident 23 years ago, is now seeking permission for a doctor to give him a lethal injection to end his life. Paul Lamb, who up until the lifting on an anonymity order this week has been … [Read more...]
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