#088 - Assisted Dying, Abortion Reform and Medical Ethics w/ Calum Miller & James Bogle

Dr. Calum Miller, NHS doctor and bioethics researcher, joins James Bogle, a barrister and legal expert in end-of-life cases, to discuss two of the most divisive issues in modern politics: assisted suicide and abortion.

Drawing on decades of experience in medicine and law, they reveal how Britain's latest legislation undermines the Hippocratic Oath, endangers vulnerable patients, and reflects a deeper erosion of our moral and legal foundations. We explore the NHS pressures behind these changes, disturbing real-world examples from Canada and Europe, and why public debate on life and death is being shut down.

 

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TIMESTAMPS
(0:00) – Introduction  
(2:40) – Should we legalise assisted dying?  
(5:00) – The NHS pressure to free up beds  
(7:58) – Parliamentary vote breakdown  
(12:29) – Hippocratic Oath undermined  
(15:00) – Political cowardice and free votes  
(21:29) – How rushed was this bill?  
(27:07) – Misdiagnosis  
(33:02) – 90% of palliative care doctors are against it  
(37:24) – Prognosis is not an exact science  
(40:08) – Are we turning doctors into executioners?  
(50:00) – The role of coroners erased  
(58:53) – Can the NHS workload handle this?  
(1:01:08) – The Rubicon and the slippery slope  
(1:10:00) – Equality law driving suicide access  
(1:18:18) – The right to try experimental treatment  
(1:33:43) – Morphine and midazolam abuse  
(1:41:50) – Lord Sumption’s warning on social pressure  
(1:45:00) – Government apathy and moral weakness  
(1:48:49) – Abortion law change: what really happened?  
(1:51:56) – 39-week abortion to hide affair  
(2:00:17) – Society creating the problem it now punishes  
(2:06:36) – Consequences of not protecting life  
(2:10:34) – Final thoughts: time to reopen the abortion debate?

 

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