Kathleen Stock

Very pleased to see my book DO NOT GO GENTLE get a great review in the Guardian today. Out on April 2nd. theguardian.com/books/2026/mar…

Should be a cracker

'As soon as [assisted dying] is promoted, you are effectively saying it is good.' Author Kathleen Stock shares her opposition to assisted dying, calling it the 'institutionalisation of death'.

@FeministPhilos You seem sane

@Docstockk It's not actually objectionable. There are a lot of reasons to think fetal consciousness is impossible until the full oxygenation that takes place at birth. Therefore, arguments that make early abortion permissible also apply to later abortion.

Really not sure the "acksherly you're stupid if you object to this very objectionable thing, it is not actually happening - and even if it was happening, it would be really good, as international experts have proven, eye roll, sarcasm, huff, omg" tactic is going to work anymore.

Possibly unnecessary specification

You could apply this to a lot of issues in the progressive space but in this case, I'm referring to absurd, anti-democratic, and yes, immoral decriminalisation of late-term/full-term abortion for women.

My copy arrived today! Can't wait to read this by @Docstockk

@helensaxby11 aha! The first one spotted in the wild!

@pritam1701D I didn't know that last bit (and have identified you by your followers :D)

@Docstockk School lockdown would not have affected it because men b / men c is only given at birth and was only introduced in 2015. Besides it’s only effective for 5 years.

Am curious how lockdowns affected school vaccine take up. Surely it meant some missed inadvertently. I've long been concerned about meningitis due to personal circs. A while ago I requested gp records to check what my teenagers had had, and found frustratingly patchy recording anyway. System seemed a mess.

For the Sunday Times today, a long read on contradictions in state-sponsored suicide provided by doctors: neither freedom nor true mercy, but pretending to be both. My book on the issue comes out next week thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…

Two questions here, I guess: a) what happened to missed scheduled vaccinations thanks to lockdown? b) what is the mechanism for getting school vaccinations into gp records so parents can now check?

Kathleen Stock on the push for assisted death laws which have - for now - foundered in Britain. (Of course, this is merely a brief setback in a 100 year campaign) x.com/i/status/20356…

This Friday 27th March, I'll be at the Oxford Literary Festival, debating Rabbi Jonathan Romain on "Assisted Dying: A Dignified end or a Collective Fantasy?". Sheldonian Theatre, 4:00PM. Tickets here ticketsource.co.uk/oxford-literar…

Scottish MSP’s change their minds at the last minute on the Assisted Dying/ Assisted Suicide Bill Come and discuss some of the arguments that might have convinced them with Kathleen Stock @Docstockk new book “Do Not Go Gentle: The Case Against Assisted Death” Bookshop Barnie on EVENTBRITE - eventbrite.co.uk/e/bookshop-bar… Monday, 20 April 7pm – 8:30pm FREE: ALL WELCOME

Utterly misleading of @PaulBrandITV @itvnews, @Ipsos_in_the_UK. They splashed that the public support the Bill. It was on the basis of the High Court approving every case! Only revealed because @PigsAndPolling chased for underlying data. This is unethical!

Where there is prosecution there can be wrongful prosecution. That's not breaking news, scarcely an argument against prosecution in general. The born/unborn distinction is not being re-written by me - fully aware! But the viable baby/non-person distinction is clearly being rewritten by you and others - late term babies being scooped into the realm of non-personhood for the want of having yet drawn breath on their own. Since we differ so radically on that basic point there is no point continuing this.

@Docstockk I focus on natural miscarriages because that is what is scooped into the equation by criminalisation. Yes, there is another life in the equation, but we have never simplistically viewed that life as independent. Re-writing our 'born/unborn' distinction is odd.

Interesting how some women who valiantly fought gender wars now using same tropes beloved of transactivists to defend decriminalisation of late term abortion. - AS IF there will be thousands of sinister men who want to predate in changing rooms/ women lining up to get rid of their babies! (there won't be, but still need legal deterrent for the few, especially with pills-by-post in the mix). - AS IF anyone would do that if they were not totally desperate/ in danger/ traumatised etc! (fact check: there are lots of different motivations, humans are diverse. Check out the stories of actual matricide! The idealisation of 50% of the population is stupid wherever you find it ). - It is MY RIGHT to do what I want to my body, regardless of consquences for others ( how is that not just abject narcissism and selfishness? We aren't living in the 18th Century. Every possible form of contraception was already available. How can it be ok to prefer to try and get rid of a later term baby - especially when you have to go through labour either way - rather than deliver it for adoption?). Starting to wonder where transactivists got this stuff from🧐

On decriminalising abortion: what’s abundantly clear from heat of the discussions on Twitter is how badly the general public were involved/represented in Parliament . This was not an urgent decision - on such ethical issues it’s so important to take the public with you.

Interesting focus on the natural miscarriages there, and not the deliberate terminations. But yes Jan. I can picture it vividly. Fear, anguish, stress, for the while. And then very probably the end of an investigation. Now tell me why I have to put the avoidance of that situation for some women, in particular, at the top of the moral pile and ignore the dead babies. Is it because you fail to imagine *their* experience? (I wouldn't normally use that one but since you started it..)

@Docstockk You say 'courts', but that means police. I am genuinely interested in whether critics of decrim can picture what that means for a woman who has had a natural miscarriage or stillbirth.