Getty Images Women experiencing painful health conditions, including heavy periods, endometriosis and adenomyosis, are being dismissed when they ask for help, an MPs’ report has warned. Diagnosis and treatment for these common issues can take years, leaving women and girls in so much pain that it disrupts all aspects of daily life, members of Westminster’s … Read more
BBC Nik Ward is disappointed the bill has passed and worries about its implications for vulnerable people Terminally ill people are a step closer to being able to choose when they die after MPs voted to support a proposed change to the law. The right to an assisted death will be granted to people with … Read more
Reuters Labour MP Kim Leadbeater, who put forward the bill, joined supporters outside Parliament after the vote MPs have backed proposals to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales in a historic vote which paves the way for a change in the law. Under draft legislation being considered by Parliament, terminally ill adults expected to … Read more
‘Time is right’ for assisted dying debate, MP Kim Leadbeater says Proposals to give terminally ill people in England and Wales the right to choose to end their life are to be introduced in Parliament this month. Labour MP Kim Leadbeater is putting forward the bill and said “now is the time” to hold a … Read more
The Opposition isn’t too happy with the Budget. They called it an exercise in political jugglery and it did little to address issues that affect the common man. They also said that States ruled by non-NDA parties were ignored. MPs of the INDIA bloc, the main Opposition bloc, are planning to stage a protest against … Read more
The 2024 general elections might have substantially changed the composition of the Lok Sabha in terms of party strengths, leading to a coalition government. However, candidates who thrived – even in the 2019 elections – were inevitably rich across most parties with assets equivalent to that of the top 10% of the urban households of … Read more
Photograph used for representational purposes only | Photo Credit: RAO GN Child rights activists in Tamil Nadu have written to all newly-elected MPs, demanding the repeal of the Child and Adolescent Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act 1986 and its amendments. Calling for the immediate eradication of child labour in all its forms across the country, … Read more
The measures, championed by PM Rishi Sunak, pass despite opposition by several leading Conservative figures. Source link
Lib Dem MPs have a free vote on the bill, and speaking to BBC Breakfast, the party leader Sir Ed Davey said: ‘I’ve seen the health impacts of smoking tobacco, there’s no good outcome, it’s always bad, it’s the leading cause of preventable death in our country.” Source link
As the law stands in England, Wales and Scotland, doctors can authorise an abortion if “there is a substantial risk that if the child were born it would suffer from such physical or mental abnormalities as to be seriously handicapped”, meaning that if a foetus is found to have Down’s syndrome, the pregnancy can be … Read more