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A group of doctors from the group Our Duty Of Care are taking on the Royal College of Physicians to challenge it's poll on assisted suicide - but they need your help‼️

🔁 Please share and support! #NoToAssistedSuicide https://t.co/uMGpPD54ib

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"The college should reflect on its role as a medical professional body and not allow itself to be manipulated into playing politics."

Well said Dr Amy Proffitt 👏 https://t.co/a1zbA5iWP5

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"No one wants anyone to suffer - that's why excellent palliative care, pain relief and funding for hospice care must be top of the agenda," writes Michael Kelly. https://t.co/3uVesHvSO5

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It uses a three-way question (for, against, neutral on the RCP stance) to which there must be a 60% result in the vote to maintain the status quo. If not, the RCP stance will change to a default... https://t.co/Q32iUvmut2

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"So when considering a fundamental change in the law, it is essential to be realistic about how it might be exploited by those whose character is not blameless — that is, all of us."

Dominic Lawson writes words of warning and wisdom this Monday morning. https://t.co/TcrxGl3Rkd

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Baroness Grey-Thompson explains the importance of the Royal College of Physicians taking a stance in opposition to assisted dying next month. https://t.co/m8pqxqv3iN

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Since euthanasia was first decriminalized in the Netherlands, the country’s doctors have travelled a very dark road.

Induced deaths have expanded from the terminally ill who ask for... https://t.co/8viA41AX0x

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Ultimately, legalising assisted suicide results in less choice for patients through external pressures, coercion, mistakes and abuse. https://t.co/fPMUMyubCp

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Just next month the Royal College of Physicians will poll its 35,000 members on the RCP's stance on assisted suicide.

Dr Amy Proffitt gives the argument for why the RCP should be opposed assisted... https://t.co/BxQNgOW7m6

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"Another nail has been hammered into the coffin on altering the UK’s law on assisted dying." https://t.co/u2FXB5YqU1

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Chilling footage here from Louis Thereoux's documentary on assisted suicide. People like Deborah need more support, not suicide. #SupportNotSuicide https://t.co/WucUuhtDhR

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Next in The Economist series on assisted suicide, No To Assisted Suicide Spokesperson Dr. Kevin Yuill responds to other contributors like Lord Falconer, and gives a strong rebuttal to their key points: https://t.co/0gN8nZoJVd

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Again, the voice of Guernsey’s Deputy Emilie Yerby gives a valuable contribution in The Economist series on asssted suicide. Spot-on analysis by Care for Life Guernsey, too: https://t.co/fzt8pXbdY4

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Good points by Dr. Peter Saunders, especially about the dangerous false euphemism of ‘assisted dying’:

‘“Assisted dying” is a euphemism. It has no meaning in law but it means... https://t.co/HgcTozktTC

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Now, this piece by No To Assisted Suicide Spokesperson Dr. Kevin Yuill, argues superbly... https://t.co/mZD2jETClZ

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Another excellent piece from a series on the assisted suicide debate in the The Economist, this time by Baroness Finlay of Llandaff, one of the country’s leading palliative care specialists, and chair of Living and Dying Well: https://t.co/mev1mWRczB

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Great article on the dangers of assisted suicide, and the better alternatives for those needing care. HT Care for Life Guernsey https://t.co/xl9GWJvtbn

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A good article in Singapore looking at the problems of assisted suicide and euthanasia, discussing how assisted suicide in those few U.S. States that have introduced it has been associated... https://t.co/VpMqVNT4xG

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Good news following the vote in Guernsey in May! The Australian Senate has voted against Second Reading for a Bill that would have allowed euthanasia to be... https://t.co/kk1ppvMyHo

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In fact, it could be argued that this would be active #euthanasia outright, as food and fluids are basic human care, not ‘treatment’.

This needs to be stopped. Please share and write to MPs to oppose this!

Good analysis by @drpetersaunders, here: https://t.co/h4TM9Z2bd5

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***BREAKING NEWS*** This is shocking; represents actual normalised ‘direct passive #euthanasia’: allowing doctors to end the lives of their patients by starving or dehydrating them to death, because they have severe dementia or other degenerative diseases: https://t.co/vb543svRtV