EXIT - Documentary Film

🧵Years of film festivals & community screenings for the award winning feature documentary EXIT and it's still so relevant! On the eve of #25N I've added many streaming options in the comments. In English OR Spanish. #EndTrafficking #films

Very pleased to get a very positive review of my new book against assisted death in the Telegraph today. Do Not Go Gentle by Kathleen Stock: 4-star review telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fict…

'Assisted death is likely to become so normalised, warns Stock, as ultimately to impose “a moral obligation” on medical professionals to kill'. Very good piece which says the book 'closes the case on #assisteddying once and for all.' telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fict…

Unresponsiveness is NOT the same thing as unconsciousness: people with a head injury may be aware, but unable to respond. A recent article in JAMA highlights this difficulty: “Covert consciousness, the enduring capacity for subjective experience even when all behavioral signs have ceased, challenges controlled (organ) donation. If a patient who appears insensate is in fact conscious despite being unable to move or communicate, the likelihood is increased that care decisions will rest on the mistaken presumption that the patienthas permanently lost consciousness or the potential to recover it…Growing recognition of covert consciousness raises a disquieting possibility: that individuals deemed critically ill and unconscious retain residual awareness during withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment and peri–organ donation procedures.” In 2019, Larry Black Jr. was made an organ donor and taken to the operating room just one week after his traumatic brain injury. His family said they consented to donate his organs because they felt pressured by the organ procurement team. “I heard my mama yelling,” he recalled. “Everybody was there yelling my name, crying, playing my favorite songs, sending prayers up.” “He said he had tried to show everyone in his hospital room that he heard them. He recalled knocking on the side of the bed, blinking his eyes, trying to show that he was fighting for his life.” But the family was told these were just reflexes.  Fortunately, his neurosurgeon heard the loudspeaker announcing Black’s “honor walk,” ran to the OR, and demanded Black be taken off of the operating table and returned to the ICU. Black recovered: he is now a musician and the father of three children. How many others like him never had this chance?

Actually, Canadian seniors are being offered euthanasia without asking for it nationalpost.com/news/canada/i-…

🇪🇸 La carta que escribió Noelia Castillo pidiendo posponer su eutanasia por estar en un “estado de confusión”.

And a warm review for DO NOT GO GENTLE in @thedispatch. Thank you @Megan_Rose_619 thedispatch.com/article/assist…

🔴Abogados Cristianos denuncia a la médico que tramitó la eutanasia de Noelia por prevaricación y conflicto de intereses al ser a su vez la coordinadora de trasplantes.

Come on UK team. I am sure we can do this. Triplets!!! Details in comment below.

🚨 Un médico de la comisión que autorizó la muerte de Noelia está querellado por ser del movimiento pro-eutanasia. #Echobox=1774893573-1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">okdiario.com/espana/medico-…

I completely agree with Lord Stevens, assisted suicide is not as medical treatment. Doctors have no business in being involved in this and the state should not coerce them to do this. As doctors we have a duty to prevent suicide. We have a duty to provide high quality palliative care and to treat depression. As for the argument that the proposed legislation is not a slippery slope. The scope of such legislation has expanded in many countries (Canada, Belgium, Spain, the Netherlands). We heard from Baroness Gerada yesterday, suggesting that every doctor must be trained in referring patients for assisted suicide. The slippery slope is ready and waiting.

Two 17 year old girls were exploited for their eggs in Nepal and their case from last year is expected to be heard by the Supreme Court on 30th March adfinternational.org/news/nepalese-… #google_vignette" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">wakeup.sg/nepal-illegal-…

British agency owners are in San Francisco this w/end for a Men Having Babies conference where agencies, lawyers and doctors gather - there’s even a software supplier. #surrogacy is undeniably a global trade built on womens bodies, with business opportunities in every corner.

Tom Gordon: there's a case in Spain where religious groups are backing a father in challenging their daughter's application. What do you think of that? Paul: not sure on relevance. On funding...issue where appealing have to rely on legal aid, so poor families can't appeal but rich families can.

So ghoulish Imagine attacking the father of a young woman having state-assisted suicide for depression, just to get your own assisted suicide bill passed

When Spain introduced “assisted dying” in 2021, the Humanists applauded, calling on UK MPs to “play close attention to the example set by Spain”. Those “assisted dying” laws have just killed Noelia. I, too, want UK MPs to pay close attention. humanists.uk/2021/03/18/spa….

This is lawful in Canada now given the nature of her physical injuries. Come March 2027 it will be available to rape victims without the physical injuries. Canada needs to do better.

@Docstockk Will there be a Spanish version Kathleen? We need it here.

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This weekend, I will be speaking at Oxford with @bindelj ! Not as an academic. As a child born through surrogacy. A child separated from her mother at birth. My surrogate mother once told me: “If I had held you one last time, I wouldn’t have let you go.” This is not a story. It is a $200 billion industry. We are translating my book into English to bring this testimony into the language of global decision-making. We need your help to make this happen. If you believe women and children are not commodities: 👉 gofundme.com/f/help-transla…

This 👇 @Paulafraga__

This is a key point. If assisting death is defined in law as “medical treatment“ all doctors and healthcare professionals will be obliged to participate in it- or face regulatory consequences. The GMC is already revising their guidance. Consultation is open until June.