A CONTROVERSIAL pro-euthanasia television advertisement, due to air at the weekend, has been banned by the authorities in Australia. The ad’s creator, lobby group Exit International, says the ban is a violation of free speech. The ad, which you can see below, features an actor playing a terminally-ill man man. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRDZFwlWU1s[/youtube] It ends by emphasising [...]
WITHIN hours of telling the other half that I’d sooner dip my dick in the Magimix than vote Tory in the upcoming general election, up pops a report in the Daily Telegraph which says that Conservative leader David Cameron has pledged to review Britain’s abortion laws and stop assisted suicide in “moves designed to place [...]
LAWYERS from the Christian Legal Centre, headed by the ghastly Andrea Minichiello Williams, are demanding that new assisted suicide guidelines – published today – be put on hold because of Lord Phillips’ personal sympathy those calling for the rules to be relaxed. The new guidance was drawn up by the Crown Prosecution Service after Lord [...]
I HAD no idea until last night that King George V had been fast-tracked to oblivion when, in 1935, he was given a lethal injection in the neck. This fact was revealed when prominent British euthanasia supporter, Dr Michael Irwin – addressing a packed meeting of the Brighton & Hove Humanist Society – provided a [...]
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IN A dramatic landmark judgement issued late this afternoon, the House of Lords unanimously ruled in favour of Debbie Purdy’s appeal to have the law on assisted suicide clarified. The unanimous judgement, said MS sufferer Miss Purdy, gives the Director of Public Prosecutions: An amazing opportunity to make clear what is and what is not [...]
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DR MICHAEL Irwin, 78, who is due to address Brighton atheists on the subject of assisted suicide on September 2, has challenged police to arrest him for his involvement in the death of a British businessman in 2007. The former GP sent £1,500 to the Swiss suicide clinic Dignitas to help cover the money needed [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
