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Dignity in Dying’s response to British Supreme Court ruling reveals its real agenda

By Dr. Peter Saunders Editor’s note. Dr. Saunders is a former general surgeon and CEO of Christian Medical Fellowship, a UK-based organization with 4,500 UK doctors and 1,000 medical students as members. “Gosport” refers to the scandal at the hospital in Hampshire in which the lives of 456 patients were “shortened” through the excessive use …

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Dignity in Dying’s response to British Supreme Court ruling reveals its real agenda

By Dr. Peter Saunders Editor’s note. Dr. Saunders is a former general surgeon and CEO of Christian Medical Fellowship, a UK-based organization with 4,500 UK doctors and 1,000 medical students as members. “Gosport” refers to the scandal at the hospital in Hampshire in which the lives of 456 patients were “shortened” through the excessive use …

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Dignity in Dying uses lack of police prosecution to push for euthanasia

Editor’s note. This comes from SPUC–the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children. The Economist magazine reports that although reported instances of people aiding someone in committing suicide have increased, the number of arrests and prosecutions have gone down. Euthanasia advocates Dignity in Dying say this means the law should be changed. The Economist asked all …

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Sir Terence: Opposition to the legalisation of assisted suicide is based on solid evidence and sound argument

By Dr. Peter Saunders Editor’s note. Dr. Saunders is a former general surgeon and is CEO of Christian Medical Fellowship, a UK-based organization with 4,500 UK doctors and 1,000 medical students as members. Sir Terence English is an 81 year old retired cardiac surgeon who lives in Oxford. He is also a patron of Dignity …

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BBC limbers up for new round of celebrity-led cheer-leading for assisted suicide

By Dr. Peter Saunders Editor’s note. Dr. Saunders is a former general surgeon and is CEO of Christian Medical Fellowship, a UK-based organization with 4,500 UK doctors and 1,000 medical students as members. Euthanasia season has arrived and the pro-death lobby, aided by their cheerleader and press office, the BBC, are now gearing up for …

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Guardian health editor jumps onto suicide promotion bandwagon

By Dr. Peter Saunders Editor’s note. Dr. Saunders is a former general surgeon and is CEO of Christian Medical Fellowship, a UK-based organization with 4,500 UK doctors and 1,000 medical students as members. The Guardian has run the story of a man with motor neurone disease who wants to end his life. Paul Chamberlain, 66, …

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Pro-euthanasia lobby rounds up tiny maverick group of religious leaders in preparation for new assault on parliament

By Peter Saunders Editor’s note. Dr. Saunders is  CEO of Christian Medical Fellowship, a British organization with 4,500 doctors and 1,000 medical students. I see that Dignity in Dying (the former Voluntary Euthanasia Society), which campaigns for the legalisation of assisted suicide for mentally competent people with less than a year to live, has set …

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Why should we trust the pro-euthanasia lobby if they can’t even agree amongst themselves about what they want?

        By Dr. Peter Saunders Editor’s note.  Dr. Saunders is a former general surgeon and CEO of Christian Medical Fellowship, a UK-based organization with 4,500 UK doctors and 1,000 medical students as members. When euthanasia became a dirty word the Voluntary Euthanasia Society changed its name to ‘Dignity in Dying’ [DID] in …

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Open letter to Sir Graeme Catto, Chairman of Dignity in Dying, over his misleading polling question

By Dr. Peter Saunders Editor’s note. Dr. Saunders is a former general surgeon and CEO of Christian Medical Fellowship, a UK-based organization with 4,500 UK doctors and 1,000 medical students as members. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I have just made a formal complaint about a polling question which I believe may breach several Rules of the Market Research …

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Charles Falconer’s bent jury – why we should not be surprised by their ‘conclusions’

By Dr. Peter Saunders Editor’s note. Dr. Saunders is a former general surgeon and CEO of Christian Medical Fellowship, a UK-based organization with 4,500 UK doctors and 1,000 medical students as members. Charles Falconer’s ‘Commission on Assisted Dying’ is due to report on Thursday 5 January 2012, over a year after it first launched in …

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Dignity in Dying misleads supporters about opposition’s resources in order to boost campaign to legalize assisted suicide

Editor’s note. Peter Saunders is CEO of the Christian Medical Fellowship, a “UK-based organization with 4,500 UK doctors and 1,000 medical students as members.”  The following appears here. Not so long ago I received a fund-raising letter written by Edward Turner, Treasurer of ‘Dignity in Dying’, formerly known as the Voluntary Euthanasia Society (VES). Dignity …

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