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The Other Half is a new centre of research for practical, workable policy in the interests of women.
Westminster, UK
Joined November 2022
Now, almost all parents in England send their 4 year olds to an optional early years class. They know it as ‘school’. The overlooked story of the state's lowering of school starting age from 5 to 4.
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This won’t end well, pun not intended
Falconer's allies Pannick and Birt have tabled amdts to do this: the day after a doctor raises ending your life, you "MUST be assigned a Personal Navigator by the Assisted Dying Help Service". They mandate a MAX timeline of 30 days, or 18 days to death. Cost saving for NHS! 1/
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"We tell you honestly what we’ve tried—and often failed—to do with the existing law. But this time, we can’t keep failing. What will we choose to do? Because we can’t choose to keep doing nothing." https://t.co/Nn91RP2Q7T
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Nearly twenty years ago, the mum of murdered Jane Longhurst fought for a ban on online sexual strangulation of women. She won. But that law has never been used. It was never anyone's job to use it. The ban might have landed SW1 at the ECHR. https://t.co/TML1K6ANmC
And in 2006 Liz and Sue won. Home Office Minister Vernon Coaker moved to ban 'extreme' violent porn online, saying it was already illegal to publish or share this material, but "the advent of the internet...means existing controls are being bypassed" (Note that a challenge was
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Use the laws we already have:
On the latest law to 'ban' strangulation in porn. "Jane Longhurst’s mother fought to stop other women dying for men’s entertainment. Two decades later, the pornography that fuelled her daughter’s murder is more pervasive – and profitable – than ever." https://t.co/9G8UJliy4r
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Government data on sex selective abortions - acknowledges that NIPT blood tests mean sex of a pregnancy can be found out as early as 7 weeks. https://t.co/82c0eoSeDJ
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Scottish Abortion Review Group says Govt data says: "sex selective abortion is not widespread in the UK" But Govt actually says:
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The Group concludes that sex selective abortions should be allowed for a woman pregnant with a girl because trying to prevent this would be: "increasing the likelihood of her seeking an abortion outside the formal healthcare sector"
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Widely available blood tests mean a baby's sex can now be found out as early as 9 weeks - much earlier than via scans. Desperately naïve of Scottish Abortion review team to think sex selective abortion is not already a reality - and that they can eradicate it through "further
Sickening. Sex selective abortion has no place in Britain. If that means awkward questions for some then that is a price worth paying. In the cases of Sara Sharif, Axel Rudakubana, and the grooming gangs victims, young girls were not protected because services feared being
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I can't sleep. I've just looked at Lord Birt's and Lord Pannick's amendments first reported by @Telegraph. They say it delivers a 'separate service' within the NHS, but it's a charter for abuse, fast-tracking ending lives with a cheery navigator 1/
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Falconer's allies Pannick and Birt have tabled amdts to do this: the day after a doctor raises ending your life, you "MUST be assigned a Personal Navigator by the Assisted Dying Help Service". They mandate a MAX timeline of 30 days, or 18 days to death. Cost saving for NHS! 1/
We are hearing deeply disturbing but credible reports that, if Kim Leadbeater’s Assisted Suicide Bill is passed, A&E patients with terminal diagnosis will be 'screened' on arrival to see, effectively, if they'd prefer death to treatment. Welcome to the future, everyone.
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This case makes for grim, distressing but necessary reading for anyone who has views about the reality of elderly women’s vulnerability to the amoral violence of men in their families in pursuit of an inheritance (relevant to the debate on the assisted dying legislation)
R v Joshua Powell Sentencing Remarks Powell sentenced for murder of Emma Finch, his grandmother. Sentenced to life imprisonment with minimum term of 26 years. https://t.co/6e3iu4dQpS
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@DSprackling1 @philipmurraylaw @Tanni_GT It’s not so much that they are working on it, it’s that they’ve told Peers that they aren’t. Which is clearly not a sustainable position
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Still inadequate answers from the Minister on the proposed PATHWAYS Puberty Blocker trial. So I’m asking these questions again for the third time! @wesstreeting
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Peers need to vote down this dangerous bill. Plainly, no one was interested in an accurate Equality Impact Assessment and we are now left with the following terrifying possible reality.
On women alone: the @EHRC says Assisted Death EIA did not explore how being a victim of domestic abuse or being a carer might be linked to assisted dying. As we said at the time. Unsafe bill and failure by government to explore this HUGE risk to women. Do we think inevitable
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The government will make sure the bill is 'workable' and 'legally robust'. It will NOT guarantee it is safe. That is a 'matter of policy' and not for the govt. MPs feeling any regret yet? Did you expect 'safety' to be an after thought for govt? Thank you @Tanni_GT!
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21 out of 64 peers, who signed a letter saying the House of Lords shouldn't block the assisted suicide Bill because the Commons approved it, blocked a Commons-backed PMB in 2014...
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So far we hear that the lives of the following women are worth losing for the greater win of assisted dying: - 'a few grannies ..bullied into' it - 1 or 2 (or 60+) women with anorexia - 288 mostly female dementia sufferers a year (are we allowed to mention the slippery slope)
A reminder that @DrHenryMarsh - prominent campaigner for assisted suicide - said: Even if a few grannies get bullied into assisted dying, isn’t that a price worth paying for all those who could die with dignity? Receipts below
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The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill is not about alleviating suffering, there is no guaranteed choice of palliative care, the “protections” against coercion are inadequate. If MPs wanted such a Bill they could have sent us one. They didn’t.
If the Lords can *ever* vote any bill down, it's hard to think of one which would more fully meet the criteria: - serious rights concerns - skimpy Commons process - not a manifesto commitment / not even a govt bill
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Lord Gove: @rcpsych, KCL’s Complex Life and Death Decisions group and other experts have strongly warned against the use of the MCA. “They have sent a message to us that the bill, as framed, endangers those who are most vulnerable. Can we really proceed on the basis of the MCA?”
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The terms “risk” and “cost” are euphemisms in this context, used to step around the truth. He is talking about a person being coerced to take lethal medication to end their life. And he appears to treat that person’s life as an acceptable price to pay to push this law through.
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