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Government Criticised for Rating Assisted Suicide Law by Cash Saved in Patient Deaths, by Simon Caldwell – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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By Simon Caldwell, Catholic Herald, May 30, 2025

Bioethicists have severely criticised a “truly sinister” government impact assessment of the assisted suicide Bill for focusing on the money that might be saved from doctors helping patients to kill themselves.

The Oxford-based Anscombe Bioethics Centre, which serves the Catholic Church in the UK and Ireland, also criticised the government for underestimating the numbers of people who would die from assisted suicide if Labour MP Kim Leadbeater’s Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill became law.

The centre conducted an analysis of an impact statement by the Department of Health and Social Care and a second produced jointly by the department with the Ministry of Justice. …

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