Assisted Death

Proposals race ahead in the UK. We explore what this means for women - and for all of us.

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    PODCAST: Assisted Death and Women

    We hear from the experts from here and abroad on the ways that women will be most affected.

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  • ACTION: Write to your MP on the Assisted Dying proposals

    Please share your thoughts on this momentous bill with your MP - and let them know about Jess Asato’s event to hear from The Other Half and more on the impact this may have on women.

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  • REPORT: Safeguarding Women in Assisted Dying

    Parliament is now debating assisted suicide for the terminally ill. This report looks at ‘assisted’ deaths here and abroad, to highlight the unacceptable risk that women are coerced into state death.

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  • EVIDENCE: 1400 Victims

    Our written evidence for the Assisted Dying bill committee at Westminster. We estimate 1400 domestic abuse victims will die by assisted suicide each year, presenting profound challenges for our society.

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See coverage of our work on assisted dying in the New Statesman, Telegraph, Invisible Women, LBC

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We think an issue which will affect all of us needs extraordinarily strong scrutiny.

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As proposals for assisted death race forward in the UK, we try to understand what this could mean for all of us. We speak to experts here and abroad to explore how vulnerable people are funnelled into suicide, how “safeguards become barriers”, and how the state responds when awful outcomes become a reality.

Why are women particularly affected by assisted suicide laws? The Other Half’s Fiona Mackenzie MBE and eating disorder recovery expert Chelsea Roff of Eat Breathe Thrive explore.

Jess Asato MP joined parliament just last year, but has found herself one of the clearest voices on the need to protect vulnerable people - women - in the proposals for assisted suicide. We hear why she had to speak out.

Professor Jane Monckton Smith is one of the foremost experts on coercive control and domestic homicides in the UK. Hear why she thinks this bill could be the worst thing potentially that we ever do for domestic abuse victims.

Canada’s MAID programme is a warning to us all. We speak to the Canadian women battling the worst outcomes there, and they have stark warnings for us.

Nikki Da Costa knows how to make law - and she tells us the assisted dying proposals before Westminster are not how you legislate. Many shocking findings in this must listen on the way this law is being made.

We hear more on the shocking story that women with eating disorders are being given lethal drugs to end their lives in assisted dying.