1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (418+ words) Jersey’s assisted suicide law has been granted Royal Assent, enabling eligible residents to get help to kill themselves as early as next year. The legislation allows assisted suicide or euthanasia — where a doctor or nurse may directly administer the lethal…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (331+ words) Following Lauren Edwards MP’s pledge to bring forward identical legislation to Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide Bill, which stalled in the House of Lords, former Labour shadow minister Rachael Maskell noted that the issue would be “so unnecessary” if everyone had…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (73+ words) Please accept preferences cookies to view this content. Health Secretary Wes Streeting announced an indefinite ban on the drugs last year due to evidence that ‘the current prescribing pathway’ posed an “unacceptable safety risk” to children and young people. After…...

2+ mon, 4+ week ago   (732+ words) Plans to legalise assisted suicide will be brought forward again at Westminster in the form of a Private Member’s Bill. Labour MP Lauren Edwards came second in the Private Members’ Ballot last month, and says she will bring forward legislation…...

3+ mon, 4+ day ago   (398+ words) Religious leaders in Victoria have urged officials to tackle the “broad overreach” of the Australian state’s conversion therapy ban. Writing in response to a review of the Change or Suppression (Conversion) Practices Prohibition Act implemented in 2022, representatives from the Christian,…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (304+ words) A Canadian man has admitted to assisting 79 UK suicides by selling lethal drugs online. Operating through suicide forums, Kenneth Law sent approximately 1,200 packages to individuals in 40 countries. Around a quarter of the deliveries were bound for the UK. The 60-year-old…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (538+ words) Australian legislators have been urged to uphold biological reality after an appeal to allow a female-only app to reject a male user was dismissed. The Court ruled that Sall Grover, founder of the Giggle app, had “directly discriminated” against Roxanne…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago   (78+ words) The Christian Institute Please accept preferences cookies to view this content. The King’s Speech promise to legislate in the controversial area of ‘conversion therapy’ is a missed opportunity for the Government to drop its deeply divisive plans. The Institute’s Joanna…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (280+ words) Websites ‘selling prostitutes’ across Scotland must be shut down, an MP has said. Tracy Gilbert — Labour MP for Edinburgh North and Leith — argues that offending sites are facilitating travel for the purposes of prostitution and therefore fall foul of anti-trafficking…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago   (429+ words) Colorado’s conversion therapy ban goes against the First Amendment right to free speech, the US Supreme Court has ruled. Therapist Kaley Chiles argued that she should be allowed to provide professional counselling for gender confused minors who wish to feel…...