Assisted suicide usually involves a health practitioner prescribing a lethal dose for a person to administer themselves, usually by swallowing a combination of drugs.
In the United Kingdom, the Suicide Act 1961 legalised the attempt to take one’s own life, but it kept illegal the assistance of another’s death.
Assisted suicide is legal in a handful of jurisdictions globally including Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg and a small number of states in the US.
Right To Life UK campaigns against any attempt to legalise assisted suicide, and for the development of palliative care services and end of life care that remove any perceived need for assisted suicide.
Lobbyists pressure Starmer to introduce assisted suicide Govt. Bill
British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has long signalled his support for introducing assisted suicide to the United Kingdom. While Starmer has previously committed to dedicating parliamentary time to a free vote on a Private Members’ Bill, and personally favours...
Nationwide election campaign to stop assisted suicide and increase funding for palliative care launched as hospices face £77 million funding gap
Today Right To Life UK has launched a nationwide General Election campaign – the Vote to Do No Harm campaign – that will be run in the lead-up to election day on 4 July. As part of the Vote to Do No Harm campaign, Right To Life UK is mobilising voters in...
Senior judge backs assisted suicide for people who are not terminally ill
One of Britain's most senior judges, former President of the Supreme Court and current member of the House of Lords has said that an assisted suicide law should not be limited to people who are terminally ill and that it is "cruel and inhumane" not to provide the...
Lib Dem manifesto 2024 – Pledge to enforce abortion buffer zones, assisted suicide vote and potentially make extreme changes to abortion laws
The Liberal Democrats have pledged to enforce buffer zones around abortion clinics, ensure there is time for a vote on assisted suicide alongside appearing to support making extreme changes to abortion legislation. In the party’s manifesto, they pledged to "[p]rotect...
General Election 2024 – Party manifestos on abortion and assisted suicide
With the General Election in less than a week, which major parties take a position on abortion and assisted suicide and what do they say about these issues? Though not every major party has made a manifesto commitment to a particular position on abortion or assisted...
Explainer: What does Farage’s return mean for the abortion debate?
As Nigel Farage returns to frontline politics, what will this mean for the abortion debate? Yesterday afternoon, Nigel Farage, founder of Reform UK (previously the Brexit Party) and former Member of the European Parliament, announced that he would be taking over the...
