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Two arrested over assisted suicide | Print |  Email
Thursday, 02 September 2010
Friends are believed to have helped Douglas Sinclair, 76, who had multiple system atrophy, travel to Switzerland to die. Naomi Phillips, head of public affairs at the British Humanist Association, said: "It is deeply saddening that people face the threat of arrest and prosecution … should they accompany loved ones abroad for an assisted death. We need a law on assisted dying that is sensible, ethical and forward thinking," reports The Guardian
 
Campaign launched to back change in law to allow assisted suicide | Print |  Email
Thursday, 02 September 2010
A CAMPAIGN backing controversial plans for a change in the law to allow assisted suicide was launched by humanists today.
MSPs are due to start taking evidence on independent Margo MacDonald's Member's Bill next week but the Humanist Society of Scotland (HSS) today insisted most people back the measures, reports The Daily Record
 
Group backs assisted suicide Bill 2 | Print |  Email
Thursday, 02 September 2010

HSS Secretary John Bishop was joined by Mrs MacDonald at the launch of the Let Me Choose campaign in the Scottish Parliament. Mr Bishop said: "Most British people support physician-assisted suicide, as reports compiled since the mid-90s have shown. "Also, there are similar majorities in support in other European countries. Therefore, we are disappointed that some of the objections to the Bill voiced in the Care Not Killing campaign are ill-informed, deliberately misleading and quite irrational," reports Peterborough Today

 
Group backs assisted suicide Bill | Print |  Email
Thursday, 02 September 2010
A campaign backing controversial plans for a change in the law to allow assisted suicide has been launched by humanists. MSPs are due to start taking evidence on independent Margo MacDonald's Member's Bill next week but the Humanist Society of Scotland (HSS) has insisted most people back the measures. HSS Secretary John Bishop was joined by Mrs MacDonald at the launch of the Let Me Choose campaign in the Scottish Parliament, reports The Press Association
 
Parkinson's sufferer backs Margo Bill to allow assisted dying | Print |  Email
Thursday, 02 September 2010
A WOMAN suffering from Parkinson's Disease today spoke out in favour of Independent Lothians MSP Margo MacDonald's Bill to allow assisted dying. Julie Johnston, 69, who sees her condition steadily deteriorating, said she believed people in her position should have a choice about bringing their life to an end. Meanwhile, the Humanist Society of Scotland launched a "Let Me Choose" campaign in support of the Bill, reports IAN SWANSON, Political Editor of The Evening News
 
Pope likely to meet church sex abuse victims during visit to UK | Print |  Email
Wednesday, 01 September 2010
Lord Patten also suggested that such an attempt to atone for the crimes of British clergy would take place behind closed doors for “obvious reasons”. In an exclusive interview with The Herald, he also said that he saw no need to change the law that bars a Catholic from becoming monarch, reports The Herald
 
Britain a 'selfish and hedonistic wasteland', says Archbishop's adviser | Print |  Email
Wednesday, 01 September 2010
A leading Catholic has claimed Britain has become a "selfish and hedonistic wasteland" which is less tolerant of his religion than countries such as Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and China, according to reports in The Daily Telegraph
 
Is science teaching undermined by religious instruction in faith schools? | Print |  Email
Wednesday, 01 September 2010
Whenever this issue cropped up in parliament I was always concerned that the debate was missing the point. It is no good teaching about evolution (which is a scientific fact) in a science lesson at 9am then at 10am, in a religious education lesson, instructing pupils not to believe it, writes Dr Evan Harris in The Guardian
 
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