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. <br/><br/><a href="https://otherhalforg.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">otherhalforg.substack.com</a>
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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. <br/><br/><a href="https://otherhalforg.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">otherhalforg.substack.com</a>
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July 3, 2025
"This is not a Government bill. It is just a Private Members Bill"
Legal expert Nikki Da Costa explains how the Private Members Bill on Assisted Dying faces challenges in the House of Lords despite passing in the Commons, as this is an interview.
June 15, 2025
The Killers
This episode explores the story of Robert Hunter, who killed his wife, and Nicholas Reed, a campaigner from EXIT, who advocated for "mercy killers," revealing the complexities and consequences of the euthanasia movement in the 1980s.
April 27, 2025
"Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil"
<p>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. </p><p><strong>But we needed to hear the straight truth, and so we asked Robert Clark, who was in parliament when Victorian Assisted Death legislation was passed, if Westminster MPs should feel reassured by what they heard from Australian witnesses:</strong></p><p><strong>“No, absolutely not”</strong></p><p>Robert is clear that he tried to stop the Victorian bill as an MP, but that things there have turned out even worse than he feared. </p><p>In their regime, which he says has been “designed to find out nothing, investigate nothing, report nothing that could cast any doubt on it being anything other than an unblemished success”:</p><p>* Doctors are trained to assess that patients are acting ‘voluntarily and without coercion’ in choosing to die. But that training is online, e-learning. And shockingly, only 5 minutes of that training is spent on detecting coercion, or domestic violence.</p><p>* No one has been turned down for assisted suicide in Victoria in the last two years. </p><p>* The Australian state of Victoria was the first to implement assisted dying in the “Australian model”. As other states implemented assisted dying, they went further each time, and now Victoria seeks to catch up on the basis of ‘equality’. This is a warning for us, with England & Wales and Scotland considering law, and the Isle of Man having already decided to implement assisted death: that each will push further on grounds of equality.</p><p>* The slippery slope is even steeper: just days after telling Holyrood MSPs that there was no slippery slope, the Victorian VAD Board published a report with an appendix containing number of safeguards which are proposed for removal. The government is now taking forward proposals just like these. Safeguards, become barriers.</p><p>* That Victorian law was the project of their Premier, who pushed this through in a “disgraceful” rushed process with late night sittings and a report that read more like a euthanasia advocacy document”</p><p>* The change of attitudes within medical practice: as those who don’t want to participate in assisted death are pushed out “victimised”, and as suicide becomes the response to suffering.</p><p></p><p><p>Chelsea and Fiona were strangers, new to assisted dying. We wanted to make sure that we had some robust debate on what assisted death might mean for all of us - and especially women. We’ve made it into the Westminster debate and into the press, but please consider a paid subscription so we can continue to make these interviews. </p></p><p><strong>What else is happening in assisted dying?</strong></p><p>It looks like assisted dying is coming to Holyrood on or about the 15th May. Write to your MSPs to tell them if you have concerns over this bill. We’ll talk more about the Scottish bill before then, but it does go further than the Westminster bill in allowing children (16+) to die.</p> <br/><br/>Get full access to The Other Half at <a href="https://otherhalforg.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4">otherhalforg.substack.com/subscribe</a>
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