Eight hundred British people are registered with Dignitas, the Swiss clinic that helps the terminally ill end their lives – up 100 since January.
Assisted suicide could be offered to Britons who are chronically depressed rather than terminally ill, says the head of a controversial Swiss group.
Over the last few years abortion has been hitting the headlines with many arguing the upper limit should be reduced. But doctors who are at the front-line of the debate are struggling to come down on either side.
“We need to ask our doctors — and our doctors need to answer — questions like, ‘What’s the shortest and longest time you think I have?’ ” she said. The other question patients might want to ask, she said, is, “How is it likely to happen?
The latest time at which an abortion can be carried out should be cut from 24 weeks to 21 weeks, a Tory MP is due to argue in the Commons.
Heather weighed less than 1.5lbs when she was arrived early after just 23 weeks of pregnancy in 2002. Doctors gave her a one in 10 chance of surviving. But she was lucky – if she had been born 20 years ago she would have had no chance.
A terminally-ill Bristol woman who had begun a legal fight to force doctors to let her die has withdrawn her case. She feels she has been forced to withdraw her case by the defendants and wishes to express how distressed she is by their actions.
Babies born at or before 22 weeks should not be resuscitated or given intensive care, a report says.
In 2004, the Nuffield Council on Bioethics convened a Working Party to discuss these issues. Although the members held a range of differing views on questions concerning the nature and sanctity of human life, they were unanimous on the conclusions and recommendations on these matters, which are summarized briefly below.
Emergency contraception is unlikely to make a substantial difference to pregnancy rates.
