Ahead of the Second Reading debate in the House of Commons over Kim Leadbeater MPās Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, the Anscombe Centre has published a new paper by our Director, Professor David Albert Jones, showing that the evidence from
Lord Falconer has drawn second place in the Ballot to present an āAssisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults Billā. The advocates of assisted suicide are once again bringing the debate back to Parliament. Their attempts have failed many times in the past.
The Journal of Medical Ethics Forum has posted an article by Prof. David Albert Jones, Director of the Anscombe Bioethics Centre, showing that support for assisted suicide in Scotland has declined significantly. Three polls conducted by the pro-assisted suicide group Dignity in
New research published in the Journal of Ethics in Mental Health has found that the introduction of euthanasia and assisted suicide (EAS) has failed to reduce the rate of āunassistedā suicide in the State of Victoria. In fact, since the law came