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Assisted: Death and Women
by The Other Half
Women are dying under assisted dying laws at rates that should alarm us all—but few people are paying attention. Assisted, hosted by Chelsea Roff and Fiona Mackenzie, dives into the data and stories behind it, asking why these laws disproportionately impact women and what it says about society’s view of illness, disability, and care. Through conversations with researchers, policymakers, and families navigating the fallout, Assisted explores the vulnerabilities these laws expose—and what that means for all of us. otherhalforg.substack.com
Episodes
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"This is not a Government bill. It is just a Private Members Bill"
We’re delighted to have expert on making law: Nikki Da Costa, return to us after MPs at Westminster voted to pass a proposed law on Assisted Dying. What on earth will happen next? We’re lining up amazing new guests for a new season. Subscribe: & please consider a paid subscription so we can keep...
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The Killers
In the 20th Century progressive campaigns emerged in the British establishment, promising soaring freedoms. This first in a series explores what happened when these campaigns hit reality: and they delivered us instead to a bleak, unbounded void. ‘Nothingism’, rather than Progressivism. MPs vote...
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"Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil"
MPs listening to the Assisted Dying Bill committee here at Westminster may have felt comforted as the invited Australian witnesses told them that all was well there, that any issues in implementation had been ironed out by the professionals. But we needed to hear the straight truth, and so we…
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"This idea that human life is worth it - people want to chip away at that. That's very dangerous."
This week Chelsea and Fiona speak to Professor Louis Appleby, psychiatrist and academic researches suicide prevention. Prof Appleby is also the UK government adviser on suicide prevention, although he speaks freely here as an academic. This discussion obviously touches on suicide and suicidality,...
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"The drugs have been abandoned in judicial executions because they were inhumane"
This week on Assisted Death and Women podcast, we speak with two experts on the real life outcomes of assisted dying. Professor Julian Hughes, who's been a doctor for 31 years and a consultant in old age psychiatry for over 20 years, and Baroness Finlay, a professor of palliative medicine who has...
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"The Devil is in the detail. This is a bad bill at the wrong time."
She won 16 medals for wheelchair racing - and set 35 world records. Now, Baroness Grey-Thompson is one of our powerhouses in the House of Lords, and she’s been talking about assisted suicide, and euthanasia, for many years - here she is in 2014 on one of the many previous bills put before...
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"There's a playbook. They know what they're doing and they know how to do it"
You might think that assisted dying campaign has new momentum in the UK, but as Olivier award winning actor and longtime disability rights activist Liz Carr tells us, the campaign has been fierce back to at least the 1990s. Liz has been exploring the potential for great harm in assisted death for...
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"It will not make the bill completely safe."
We’re joined by a very special guest: MP for Lowestoft Jess Asato. A new MP in 2024, Jess worked in the domestic abuse sector and with children’s charity Barnardo’s before entering parliament. Her amendment, to train doctors who assess for assisted dying in domestic abuse, coercive control and...
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"This bill is going to be the worst thing potentially that we've ever done to domestic abuse victims"
This coming week the committee for the Assisted Death Bill at Westminster will consider whether doctors assessing for assisted death should be given training on coercive control and financial abuse. The Other Half think that many hundreds of domestic abuse victims will be given assisted deaths…
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"It feels like get Brexit done" | Assisted: Episode 7
In Westminster this week, MPs will reconvene to continue line-by-line scrutiny of the Assisted Dying Bill. As the committee returns, key questions remain: Could people with conditions such as diabetes and anorexia be considered terminally ill? Are doctors equipped to detect coercion and ensure...
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'MPs didn't know what they were signing up to. Now they have to lose face'. Assisted Episode 6
This is our third discussion with the experts who can tell us how Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying panned out. Tonight we speak with two doctors who know more about MAID than they ever would have dreamed. Chelsea and Fiona welcome: Dr Ramona Coelho, a family physician in London, Ontario. She…
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Every day they have to wake up and say "should I let the government end my life?"
Today we continue to hear from experts on Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada, which seems to have spiralled beyond anyone’s worst imaginings. Tonight, we have three powerhouse legal academics: feminists who work to limit the terrible excesses of Canada’s MAID. Fiona and Chelsea were so pleased...
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"My mom said many times that she felt a burden" Assisted Episode 4
We hear again and again that the UK’s assisted dying will never be like Canada - we’re nothing like Canada! The headlines on Canadian Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) are pretty alarming. But to some surprise, the MPs considering assisted dying at Westminster didn’t ask any experts from Canada…
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'This is not how you legislate' Assisted Death and Women Episode 3
This is an incredible conversation. Every MP in Westminster needs to hear this - as Nikki says “I don’t know” the answer to all the questions “but importantly, I know I don’t know”. Westminster is considering assisted dying laws, put forward as a Private Member’s Bill. Formerly at No10 to make…
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'A distraction from a new mode of dying'
As mentioned last episode of the podcast, Chelsea Roff gave evidence at the Terminally Ill Adults (Assisted Dying) Bill committee this week. As Chelsea told them, the Committee MPs clearly do not want women with anorexia to be given assisted dying in the proposed bill. But Chelsea Roff and Dr...
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Assisted Death and Women Ep 2: A Story of Control
In Westminster this week MPs heard from a series of invited witnesses that - in their opinion - there was no risk of women with anorexia being given assisted death. But we know different. At least 60 people have been given assisted death where an eating disorder is their primary qualifying...
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"All of the cases we identified were women" Assisted Podcast Ep 1
The UK is considering proposals for assisted death, with a Private Member’s Bill sponsored by Labour MP Kim Leadbeater now pushing through Westminster. But we think assisted dying presents specific problems for women, and this movement is not just ‘the next progressive big thing’. Join The Other...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Women are dying under assisted dying laws at rates that should alarm us all—but few people are paying attention. Assisted, hosted by Chelsea Roff and Fiona Mackenzie, dives into the data and stories behind it, asking why these laws disproportionately impact women and what it says about society’s view of illness, disability, and care. Through conversations with researchers, policymakers, and families navigating the fallout, Assisted explores the vulnerabilities these laws expose—and what that means for all of us.
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