Dr Gordon Macdonald

What Dr Gordon Macdonald has said

• “We are relieved that MSPs have decided not to back this legislation. We believe the Bill posed serious risks to the most vulnerable in society – including disabled people and those suffering from domestic abuse. It threatened the relationship between doctor and patient that is central to our NHS.”

  chief executive of the Care Not Killing campaign · Assisted dying · 30 Sept 2026 · Scotland rejects assisted dying ↗

• “We believe the bill posed serious risks to the most vulnerable in society - including disabled people and those suffering from domestic abuse.”

  CEO of Care Not Killing · Assisted dying · 30 Sept 2026 · Scotland's assisted dying bill rejected after emotional debate ↗

• “"The House of Lords have done a remarkable job in highlighting the fatal flaws in this dangerous and ill-conceived Bill. Their concerns echo the numerous professional and expert bodies, including Mind, the British Association of Social Workers and doctors' groups, which have officially stated that the safeguards within the current Bill are inadequate, ineffective or risk vulnerable people being pressured into ending their lives early."”

  CEO of Care Not Killing · Assisted dying · 30 Sept 2026 · Lord’s scrutiny exposes fatal flaws in “dangerous” Assisted Dying Bill ↗

• “We are obviously disappointed by this illogical and ideological decision to bring back the a deeply flawed bill. A bill that was so riddled with errors not a single doctors' group or disabled group supported it.”

  CEO of Care Not Killing · Assisted dying · 30 Sept 2026 · Disappointment at “ideological” revival of “deeply flawed assisted dying bill” ↗

• “Assisted suicide and euthanasia place the most vulnerable people at risk of coercion or pressure to end their lives prematurely. We know from overseas jurisdictions that it's impossible to have failsafe mechanisms preventing those who are depressed or suffering from other mental health conditions from accessing euthanasia and assisted suicide.”

  Chief Executive of Care Not Killing · Assisted dying · 30 Sept 2026 · Assisted dying and the law in Scotland: Both sides now ↗

• “the bill is precipitate and indecent at a time when the British health system, in particular regarding access to palliative care, is inadequate”

  director of Care Not Killing · Assisted dying · 30 Sept 2026 · Great Britain : A new bill on assisted suicide is rekindling the debates. ↗

• “This legislation will fundamentally alter health and palliative care on Jersey and put the lives of vulnerable people at risk, exactly as we have seen in those places that have introduced assisted suicide or euthanasia. It fails on a number of fronts, including: lack of legal protections for doctors and nurses who do not want to be involved, protections for the elderly and disabled people at risk of being coerced, will see money taken out of palliative care and has been sold to the public as a way to end suffering when we know from places like Oregon, those who take the death row drugs may suffer long and agonising death from a pulmonary oedema — where their lungs slowly fill up with bodily fluid and the drown in their own secretions.”

  Dr · Assisted dying · 30 Sept 2026 · Royal Assent for Jersey law despite human rights issues ↗

• “This poll strongly suggests that assisted dying, an already controversial issue, has become even more toxic. Indeed, the public do not trust the ability of an overstretched and underfunded health system to introduce assisted dying safely and want politicians to focus on fixing the broken palliative care system.”

  CEO of Care Not Killing · Palliative & end of life care · 30 Sept 2026 · Fix palliative care, before introducing assisted suicide or euthanasia, say majority of Britons ↗

• “This poll shows a significant divide between MPs who were elected before the last General Election and those who are relatively new to the House of Commons. Those who were previously elected are more cautious, more worried about safeguards and the implications of passing such radical legislation unamended, knowing that it is likely to put pressure on the vulnerable, elderly and disabled people to end their lives prematurely.”

  CEO of Care Not Killing · Assisted dying · 29 Sept 2026 · Two-thirds of MPs concerned that passing assisted dying legislation that fails to protect people will undermine trust in politics ↗

• “Our current laws protect vulnerable people and lawmakers had rightly said they do not need changing; it's time to move beyond this debate and fix palliative care.”

  Chief Executive of Care Not Killing · Assisted dying · 29 Sept 2026 · British Lawmakers Reject Terminally Ill Adults Bill, Keeping Assisted Dying Ban Unchanged in England and Wales ↗

• “This was a decisive vote by MPs, who have over the last 24 months seen through the pernicious pretence that this draft legislation was safe and wouldn't put pressure on vulnerable people to end their lives prematurely.”

  Chief Executive of Care Not Killing · Assisted dying · 29 Sept 2026 · Care Not Killing welcomes defeat of Lauren Edwards' assisted suicide bill ↗

• “This report demonstrates yet again that the current Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill is an unsafe piece of legislation. It fails to protect the vulnerable, and as Professor Jones highlights, fails to protect medics or institutions that are philosophically or ethically opposed to killing their patients or those they care for via assisted suicide or euthanasia.”

  CEO of Care Not Killing · Assisted dying · 12 Aug 2026 · Assisted Dying Bill could force care homes and hospices to participate in assisted suicide or close ↗

Where Dr Gordon Macdonald has been quoted

1. Assisted dying bill backers gather in Worthing and Brightonbbc.co.uk · 30 Sept 2026
2. Scotland rejects assisted dyingtelegraph.co.uk · 30 Sept 2026
3. Scotland's assisted dying bill rejected after emotional debatebbc.com · 30 Sept 2026
4. Lord’s scrutiny exposes fatal flaws in “dangerous” Assisted Dying Billcarenotkilling.org.uk · 30 Sept 2026
5. Disappointment at “ideological” revival of “deeply flawed assisted dying bill”carenotkilling.org.uk · 30 Sept 2026
6. Assisted dying and the law in Scotland: Both sides nowlawscot.org.uk · 30 Sept 2026
7. Great Britain : A new bill on assisted suicide is rekindling the debates.alliancevita.org · 30 Sept 2026
8. Royal Assent for Jersey law despite human rights issuescarenotkilling.org.uk · 30 Sept 2026
9. Fix palliative care, before introducing assisted suicide or euthanasia, say majority of Britonscarenotkilling.org.uk · 30 Sept 2026
10. Two-thirds of MPs concerned that passing assisted dying legislation that fails to protect people will undermine trust in politicscarenotkilling.org.uk · 29 Sept 2026
11. British Lawmakers Reject Terminally Ill Adults Bill, Keeping Assisted Dying Ban Unchanged in England and Walesnewscord.org · 29 Sept 2026
12. Care Not Killing welcomes defeat of Lauren Edwards' assisted suicide billindcatholicnews.com · 29 Sept 2026
13. Assisted Dying Bill could force care homes and hospices to participate in assisted suicide or closecarenotkilling.org.uk · 12 Aug 2026

Related media coverage

Recent UK press coverage of their topics — not necessarily citing them directly.

• St Helena Hospice staff share the privilege of caring for people at life’s endSouthend Echo
• Good palliative care and assisted dying can go hand in hand | LettersThe Guardian
• How to DieThe New York Times