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"The elderly and infirm are a ‘drain on resources’". Lord Curry of Kirkharle quotes Matthew Parris in The Times saying it would be good if they felt pressure to end their lives early. This is the chilling attitude that legalising assisted suicide would normalise.
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Lord Falconer says people with “learning difficulties or autism” could, with “proper assistance”, access assisted suicide.
That should alarm every Peer in the Lords. Vulnerable people don’t need help to die. They need support to live.
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🔥Former PM @theresa_may destroys the dangerous assisted suicide Bill in just 45 seconds, cutting through the spin: “Suicide is wrong, but this Bill effectively says suicide is ok… It should not pass.”
This is the truth. Peers must reject the doublespeak from Bill supporters.
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😯 INCREDIBLE!
"I speak as someone who was given six months to live 37 years ago."
Lord Polak absolutely destroys claims that a six-month prognosis is an adequate safeguard for assisted suicide.
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Robert Jenrick MP (@RobertJenrick): “There will be imperceptible changes in behaviours. There will be the grandmother who worries about her grandchildrens’ inheritance if she does not end her life. There will be the widow who relies on the kindness of strangers, who worries; it preys on her conscience. There will be people who are (and we all know them in our lives) shy, who have low self-esteem, who have demons within them. I know those people. I can see them in my mind’s eye. They are often poor, they are vulnerable, they are the weakest in society. And they look to us. They look to parliament to represent them, to support them, to protect them. In their interests, I am going to be voting against this Bill today".
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📢 The Royal College of Psychiatrists have said they want "nothing whatever to do with" assisted suicide, according to Baroness Butler-Sloss.
The vast majority of people do not want to see this dangerous Bill become law. The Lords has a duty to reject the Bill outright.
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Dr Rachel Clarke (Palliative care doctor): If we don't address the state of palliative care, some people will "choose" to end their life through assisted suicide because we as a society don't care enough to give them the care that might make life worth living. (@doctor_oxford)
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Jerome Mayhew MP (@JeromeMayhew) sums up today's debate: We've made a major change to the abortion law, on the basis of no evidence session, no committee stage scrutiny, just 46 minutes of backbench debate and a government minister wind-up who refused to take any interventions.
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Simon Hoare MP (@Simon4NDorset) highlights the discourtesy of Kim Leadbeater walking out of the chamber rather than listening to MPs’ serious concerns. Parliamentary sovereignty isn’t optional. What could possibly be more important than listening and answering to the House?
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🔥HUGE MOMENT! The Royal College of Psychiatrists doubles down on opposition to the assisted suicide Bill.
“WE COULD NOT SUPPORT THE BILL”. Leadbeater wants psychiatrists on her death panels, but the Royal College wants nothing to do with it. The Bill is surely now unworkable.
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“WE MUST CHOOSE LIFE OVER FEAR!”
In a rousing end to his speech, Lord @ShaunBaileyUK warns that far from helping vulnerable people, Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide legislation “will make more people vulnerable”. He’s right - the Lords cannot pass this Bill.
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Kim Leadbeater claims her assisted suicide Bill has “the strictest safeguards in the world” - but won’t take any interventions because MPs only have 5 minutes to speak.
Nothing says careful scrutiny like rushing a debate on life and death.
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😱 This is appalling!
In the Netherlands, a significant number of individuals who have been euthanised have had autism or intellectual disabilities, and there had been little attempt to understand whether these individuals had the capacity to consent to this.
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💬“I believe this country can be better than this!” In a rousing end to her speech, Baroness Phillipa Stroud tells fellow Peers there is a better path than legalising assisted suicide. We should become a “world leader” in developing palliative care instead.
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Kim Leadbeater claims that convincing a loved one not to take their own life is ‘coercion’. Seriously? 😧
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💔BREAKING: MPs have just voted to introduce abortion up to birth. A sad day for our country that will put women and unborn babies at risk. This is extreme and there are no winners from this decision.
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Lord Craig of Radley reminds the House of Lords that none of us decides when we take our first breath, so asks, should Parliament legislate when we take our last? Assisted suicide undermines the principle of upholding life and should not be enacted.
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Lord Jopling gave a moving speech in today's assisted suicide debate on how his mother battled illness & depression, but lived until age 96 with family support. Vulnerable people deserve help to live, not to die.
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Danny Kruger MP (@danny__kruger): To enable doctors to issue lethal drugs that kill you without your family knowing ... I beg the Committee to consider what on earth are we doing allowing that?
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💥Kim Leadbeater has suffered her first defeat.
Her willingness to allow doctors to raise assisted suicide with under 18s shows her true colours and where the Bill's architects want things to go eventually.
If MPs don't want this, they must reject the Bill outright next week.
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Sir Iain Duncan Smith MP (@MPIainDS): We can’t send the assisted suicide Bill to the Lords on a vague hope they’ll fix it. We were promised the strongest safeguards in the world – but in Committee, they were weakened, not strengthened.
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Kim Leadbeater shrugs off the reality that anorexia patients will be able to access assisted suicide under her Bill - saying they’d likely die before completing the process.
That’s not a safeguard.
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⚠️GRAVE WARNING: “In Belgium, children at the age of 9 are being euthanised under similar legislation!”
Lord @cmackinlay argues far more people would die under the assisted suicide Bill than Lord Falconer claims & says we risk a slippery slope as has happened elsewhere.
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No wonder Kim Leadbeater didn't want to hear from a representative of the Royal College of Psychiatrists!
Dr Annabel Price, representing the Royal College, exposes the reality of depression being "common" near the end of life. However, if depression is treated, there is often "a significant change" in a wish to hasten death, she explains.
Whether Leadbeater recognises it or not, she is actively facilitating suicide for people with depression instead of treating their depression.
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🚨EMBARRASSING MOMENT! Lord Falconer has to apologise for failing to mention, as he ought, that the pressure group Dignity in Dying funded the printing of literature he sent to peers.
This is a pattern - Kim Leadbeater also had to apologise at Second Reading in the Commons.
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Incredibly, Kim Leadbeater suggests a family concerned about a decision to allow a loved one's assisted suicide should take out an "injunction".
Does she honestly think anxious family members would find the money or know how to go about doing this?
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🚨 SHOCKING: Kim Leadbeater lets the cat out of the bag. When @danny__kruger MP asks her if she agrees “every doctor” would have an “obligation” to raise assisted suicide for “all” terminally ill patients, Leadbeater TWICE confirms that would indeed be the effect of her Bill.
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Kit Malthouse says the quiet part out loud - the sponsor of Kim Leadbeater's assisted suicide Bill suggests that legalising assisted suicide would save the NHS the cost of expensive treatment for dying people.
He maintains that current support for the terminally ill is "costing the taxpayer". The cat is well and truly out of the bag!
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Suella Braverman MP (@SuellaBraverman) warns that in countries where abortion has been decriminalised, there’s been a significant rise in failed late-term abortions – with serious physical harm and risk as a result.
We should not follow that path.
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🔥 Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson drops a bombshell stat. In 20 countries without assisted suicide, palliative care funding rose by 25%, BUT in the Benelux states where there is AS, it has only risen by 7.9% in the same period. Legalising assisted suicide weakens REAL care.
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The Speaker had to reprimand Kim Leadbeater twice for failing to follow parliamentary protocols, despite clear instructions at the start of proceedings. Troubling behaviour from the lead sponsor of a Bill with such grave and far-reaching consequences.
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Keir Starmer told MPs today at Prime Minister's Questions that "one death by suicide is one too many". So why did he vote for the assisted suicide Bill, which would lead to the deaths of thousands of people by suicide ever year?
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.@Tanni_GT tears up explaining she knows parents "terrified" about how their 40-year-old child living with Down’s syndrome will be treated if they outlive them, and they are no longer around to help advocate for him. Especially if assisted suicide becomes an option.💔
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🚨 @danny__kruger exposes a shocking flaw in Leadbeater’s Bill: a proxy could approve an assisted suicide without knowing the patient or having had any training. So much for the “strictest safeguards in the world”!
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🚩MASSIVE RED FLAG!!
💰💰Health minister Stephen Kinnock REFUSES to rule out that private companies could make a profit out of assisted suicide. This is ghoulish & would create a death industry. The Bill must be rejected!
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🪦First, Kim Leadbeater wanted High Court judges to sign off death warrants. The judges said NO. Next, she wanted psychiatrists to approve patients’ deaths. Now they also say NO.
This Bill is shambolic & must be consigned to the grave.
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Rebecca Paul MP (@Rebecca_SPaul) emphasises that more people would have dignified and comfortable deaths if we focused on palliative care rather than assisted suicide.
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Tim Farron MP (@timfarron): A person who is a victim of coercive control may not realise they've been a victim until years later.
The sad reality is that a person who's been coerced into an assisted suicide will have no "years later".
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Sarah Pochin MP (@SarahForRuncorn) highlights a glaring contradiction:
We can save a baby born at 22 weeks, yet abortion is still legal at 24 weeks.
She’s right to call for a lower time limit. The law must catch up with modern medicine.
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😥 Baroness Monckton states that, like many of those with Down's Syndrome, her daughter is "highly suggestible", sharing concerns that there is a large possibility of danger for these individuals, if assisted suicide were to become law.
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A fiery defence for the unborn from a Queens University Belfast student on The @BBCNolan Show! 🔥🔥
#ProLifeGeneration #BothLivesMatter
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Baroness Falkner (@KishwerFalkner) points out there was no consultation and the process hasn't been transparent.
Kim Leadbeater's not happy about her noticing these facts.
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BREAKING: Leadbeater Bill Committee shockingly rejects @RachaelMaskell MP amendment that would require someone to have a consultation about palliative care options before being able to have an assisted suicide. This would have assisted some to live.
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Remarkable! Rachel Hopkins MP says "so what?" about why someone wants to die. It's "none of [a doctor's] business!" Is she suggesting "autonomy" means anyone should be able to die and doctors shouldn't check the reason? The true aims of the Bill's supporters are becoming clear.
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Jack Abbott, who has consistently voted with Kim Leadbeater, says "There is no safeguard that we could possibly put in... that would 100% make sure that there will never ever be any mistakes". This is exactly why the only reliable safeguard is to keep assisted suicide illegal.
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🚨GHOULISH FROM CHRIS WHITTY!!
Chris Whitty labels stopping a loved one from seeking assisted suicide as “coercion” & claims such attempts are “IMPOSING” your view on the person who wishes to die. He clearly doesn’t believe in suicide prevention!
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⚡SHOCKING! Kim Leadbeater, clearly rattled, admits that her plan B of a multidisciplinary death panel is not a legal entity & doesn’t require families to be heard or cross-examination to take place. This Bill is not safe!
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Munira Wilson (@munirawilson): If this Bill passes, we will be in a position where assisted suicide is available universally on the NHS, but access to good palliative care is not. That is not giving people a genuine choice at the end of their lives.
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Sarah Olney educates Kim Leadbeater on her own Bill, pointing out the danger that it could lead to doctors making profits from assisted suicide services.
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Disability Studies scholar Dr Miro Griffiths (@MiroGriffiths) reminds the Committee that there are no deaf and disabled peoples' organisations in support of this Bill.
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🚨WOW! Another expert slams the assisted suicide Bill!
Kim Leadbeater wants assisted suicides to be immune from coroner inquests. WATCH the Former Chief Coroner Thomas Teague’s withering verdict on this. This Bill is a car crash!
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Dr Neil Hudson MP (@DrNeilHudson): About 70% of end-of-life care is delivered outside the NHS, largely by charities. There is something deeply wrong about this. Shouldn't we address palliative and hospice care before we go anywhere near this assisted suicide Bill?
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🚨BREAKING NEWS! Baroness Monckton & Baroness Stroud have this evening tabled amendments to the Crime & Policing Bill that would remove the ‘abortion up to birth’ clause from the Bill & reinstate in-person consultations before women are able to obtain abortion pills. 🧵1/
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🚨BREAKING: As reported by @GregHeffer Kim Leadbeater misled MPs in an email on Sunday night. Writing to MPs, she cited a survey to claim that support for assisted suicide has remained stable since Second Reading. But the survey was completed a month before Second Reading. 🧵1/
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MSP @JeremyRBalfour: I am only here today because someone came to help me shower and dress. I could imagine feeling like a burden. I have spoken to other disabled people who feel the same.
This could be very dangerous if assisted suicide is made legal.
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Diane Abbott MP: Too many people lack confidence in the face of authority. If a doctor raises assisted suicide, they'll feel steered towards it.
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"How many deaths are you okay with? If the safeguards fail once, that is a human being who may be in a despairing moment who was handed a lethal medication instead of the care and the treatment they need".
- Eating disorders researcher, Chelsea Roff (@ChelseaRoff)
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Kim Leadbeatear once again denies that her assisted suicide Bill is a Bill about suicide. Danny Kruger (@danny__kruger) has to remind her that her own Bill requires the amending of the Suicide Act.
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Press release - Campaigners vow to fight extreme abortion up to birth amendment in the Lords, after government bill hijacked to rush through seismic law change after just two hours’ debate.
righttolife.org.uk/news/pres…
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Naz Shah MP (@NazShahBfd): If the safeguards fail even once, no one in this house would be able to say we did not see this coming. “That is not compassion, that is abandonment”.
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👑A RIGHT ROYAL MESS: Major intervention on abortion up to birth & assisted suicide from King Charles. The King is reported to be having a “dark night of the soul” about both pieces of legislation. Neither should receive royal assent - they would put the most vulnerable at risk.
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🚨BREAKING: Kim Leadbeater has this evening tabled an amendment that will change the role of the NHS forever: no longer to seek only the "improvement" of health, as specified in its founding Act, but also now to end life. Is this what MPs want?
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SHOCKING STAT FROM NEW ZEALAND
Baroness Scotland (@PScotlandKC) points out that since introducing assisted suicide, New Zealand has slid from the 3rd best palliative-care system in the world to the 12th.
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“You don’t have to kill the patient in order to kill the pain.”
Closing her excellent speech, Baroness O'Loan (@NualaLoan) quotes Dame Cicely Saunders & insists that the “ill-conceived, uncertain and unsafe” assisted suicide Bill must be rejected by Peers.
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🥊GLOVES OFF!! Former Education Secretary Lord (John) Patten, slams “the strange and weird” way that Kim Leadbeater’s Bill has proceeded through Parliament & the Government’s “covert” & “overt” help for a Bill about which it has claimed to be neutral.
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If the Leadbeater assisted suicide Bill passes, doctors will be allowed to bring up assisted suicide with patients - even if the patients never mention it themselves.
Dr Rachel Clarke (@doctor_oxford) says if a doctor brings up assisted suicide with a vulnerable patient who's just been given a terminal diagnosis, it is a form of pressure, and potentially, the doctor could be unintentionally coercing the patient.
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Liz Carr - MPs may trust doctors to manage assisted dying. Disabled people like me cannot theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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🥲 Lord Shinkwin shares a moving story about his personal difficulties with pain and disability.
He reiterates that true choice would mean access to proper palliative care, not an encouragement of assisted suicide.
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Tom Tugendhat MP (@TomTugendhat): This debate needs more honesty. Assisted dying is what a hospice does. This is assisted suicide. Let's be absolutely clear about what we are choosing to do.
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Danny Kruger MP (@danny__kruger) quotes barrister Ruth Hughes "If the Bill is passed, then this will lead to some of the most vulnerable people dying for others' financial gain. That is certain".
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🚨BREAKING: Pro-assisted suicide Bill MPs vote for the debate to close early, despite many MPs not being able to speak to key amendments. Why won't they allow proper scrutiny?
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🚨BREAKING: Barely two weeks before its scheduled date, Leadbeater has just written to MPs saying that she has now delayed Report Stage from 25 April to 16 May.
Kim's chaos continues...
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LEADBEATER COMMITTEE LATEST: The Committee has rejected all 86 amendments to Clause 1 of the assisted suicide Bill relating to the definition of “assisted dying”. Every single proposed safeguard has been rejected. Danny Kruger (@danny__kruger MP) shines light on what this means.
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Jeremy Wright MP: I do not want to live in a society where anyone, including the terminally ill, is encouraged in the belief that their lives are not valuable and valued to their very last moments.
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Toby Porter, CEO of Hospice UK says that if someone chose assisted suicide because of the real or imagined fear that they couldn't get the pain relief or symptom alleviation they needed, this would be a "moral and practical disgrace".
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BREAKING: Leadbeater Committee rejects @sarah_bool amendment that would have prevented a condition that can be managed by treatment, such as diabetes, from counting as a terminal illness eligible for assisted suicide. This Bill is intentionally wide open and broad.
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🔥ASSISTED SUICIDE BILL ON THE ROPES! On a significant day in the Lords, more than two-thirds of peers who spoke on day one of Second Reading of Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide Bill spoke in opposition to the Bill. The future of the Bill is now in grave doubt.
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Baby born at 22 weeks opens his eyes for the first time. 😍
In just over 24-hours it will be legal in Northern Ireland to abort babies in womb that are the same age as this baby. 😪
Take action. Email your MLA now: righttolife.org.uk/take-acti…
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A proxy can sign an assisted suicide request “for any other reason” - even psychological reasons - under this Bill. @danny__kruger points out just how shocking this is: there are no restrictions, no safeguards, and nothing to stop this from being misused.
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💥In an outstanding philosophical critique of the assisted suicide Bill, Lord Frost (@DavidGHFrost) exposes how legalising assisted suicide would shatter our entire ethical framework. “The ultimate destination” is “utilitarianism” he says, and “none of us” would be safe.
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Baroness @Fox_Claire points out the danger that someone with dementia could be approved for assisted suicide under the current terms of the Bill. The Mental Capacity Act is wholly inappropriate for life & death decisions!
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Pro-assisted suicide MP Alison Hume claims “there is no need to investigate an assisted death as it is not unnatural".
Really? A death caused by lethal drugs isn’t unnatural?
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Carla Lockhart (@carlalockhart) finds it "absolutely mindblowing" that there is no money for winter fuel payments but a "bottomless pot of money" is approved for a "state-funded, gold-plated assisted suicide service"😱
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☠️WHAT MONSTER ARE WE CREATING?
Former New Zealand MP Simon O’Connor explains that just 4 years after the legalisation of assisted suicide, NZ has policies to take organs from euthanised patients, despite the public being unaware this would happen when the law was passed.
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Kim Leadbeater and 80 other MPs specifically cited the High Court safeguard or judicial protections as a reason to back the assisted suicide Bill at Second Reading.
The Bill's flagship "safeguard" has now been euthanised.
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While Julia Lopez MP (@JuliaLopezMP) rightly laments that decriminalising abortion, a major legal shift, is squeezed into just two hours of backbench debate...
Tonia Antoniazzi responds by shaking her head and rolling her eyes.
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👀MUST WATCH: National treasure Liz Carr (@thelizcarr) brilliantly explains the blurred boundary between disability & terminal illness & frighteningly explains how easy it would be for someone like her to convince a panel of her eligibility to die under an assisted suicide law.
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The Sun - MPs backing assisted dying are braced for legislation to collapse amid fury over the handling of the Bill: thesun.co.uk/news/33993822/m…
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“We’ve already got an uphill struggle convincing people our lives are of equal value, and this Bill actually hinders us in that aspiration and ambition rather than helping us”. Fazilet Hadi, Disability Rights UK (@DisRightsUK)
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Dr Sarah Cox (Association for Palliative Medicine President) shockingly reveals that 25% of people who die in this country do not have the palliative care that they need. "That's more than 100,000 people a year".
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Simon Hoare MP (@Simon4NDorset) asks a crucial question: how concerned is Kim Leadbeater about the growing number of professional bodies urging caution and calling for her Bill to be rejected?
She brushes it off as just “different views”.
Why won’t she listen to the experts?
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Has Jake Richards MP, who supports the assisted suicide Bill, just revealed a massive flaw in the Bill? If the family do not know about the assisted suicide decision due to patient confidentiality, who exactly would appeal if there were coercion?
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THE BILL IS BEING MISSOLD!
🔥Baroness Finlay brilliantly skewers Kim Leadbeater & Lord Falconer for selling their Bill as being about rare case of extreme pain at the end of life when in reality the Bill is far broader than that & makes no reference to pain.
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Kim Leadbeater lets the cat out of the bag. Assisted suicide won’t just be for those in physical pain but anyone who wants it if they’re terminally ill.
She cites “psychological suffering”, “mental torment” &“fear”. But a healthy society offers support not suicide in such cases.
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🚨MUST WATCH - This is what assisted suicide Bill supporters really think!
Baroness Hayter suggests people have an "absolute right" to commit suicide. Former Chief Coroner Thomas Teague has to remind her that we have suicide prevention measures because we DON’T condone suicide.
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Danny Kruger (@danny__kruger) raises the point that "the great majority of doctors who work in palliative care and work with dying people remain firmly opposed to a change in the law".
The BMA survey found:
- 70% of palliative care doctors surveyed believe the BMA should remain opposed to assisted suicide, whilst just 7% were in favour.
- 54% of doctors surveyed said they would not be willing to participate actively in the process of administering life-ending drugs. Only 26% said they would be willing.
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