David Burrowes MP led a Westminster Hall debate on palliative care on the 17 January 2012. He spoke out against assisted suicide, instead backing end-of-life care services. He commented: “Rather than legislating for an abrupt end to life, we need to find better ways to help care for the dying”.
Lord Falconer, Chairman of The Commission on Assisted Dying has said that the report released last week, which suggested that adults thought to have less than a year to live should be able to ask doctors for drugs to end their life, is ‘not’ without risk — An increasing number of women who are expecting multiple births are aborting one or more of their unborn babies — Government Minister Sarah Teather has written to business leaders inviting them to meet with the Prime Minister in a bid to tackle child sexualisation — Boots the Chemists have caused outrage over a range of sex toys they are selling at many of their stores — Premier Christian Radio, which was banned from airing an advert on ‘Christian marginalisation’ has been given permission to go to court and challenge the decision — The proportion of children in Britain being brought up in single-parent families is higher than any other major European country — And Scottish couple Robert and Susan Erskine became Britain’s oldest married couple on New Year’s Day when they celebrated their 75th wedding anniversary.