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The US Department of Health and Human Services has  issued a final rule which aims to dramatically expand the ability of health care institutions and workers to refuse to provide medical services if they have a moral or religious objection.

In 2016 Staffordshire County Council decided it would stop carrying out any assessments except those cases it classified as high priority, because of lack of finances.

The Royal College of Physicians  is to poll its members and fellows on whether or not there should be a change in the law to permit assisted dying.

Measures introduced under the state of emergency have now been embedded into ordinary French law, says Amnesty.