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Affirming and defending human dignity, and the right to life of every human being, from conception to natural death.
Joined February 2011
đŞWe were told the assisted suicide Bill showed "Parliament at its best". Instead, we got Parliament at its worst. Watch to the end for the worst moments! . This Bill must be defeated - every MP should see this ahead of Report Stage tomorrow.
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Robert Jenrick MP (@RobertJenrick): âThere will be imperceptible changes in behaviours. There will be the grandmother who worries about her grandchildrensâ inheritance if she does not end her life. There will be the widow who relies on the kindness of strangers, who worries; it
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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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Kim Leadbeater claims that convincing a loved one not to take their own life is âcoercionâ. Seriously? đ§
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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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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
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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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đ¨ SHOCKING: Kim Leadbeater lets the cat out of the bag. When @danny__kruger MP asks her if she agrees âevery doctorâ would have an âobligationâ to raise assisted suicide for âallâ 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
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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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đ¨ @danny__kruger exposes a shocking flaw in Leadbeaterâs Bill: a proxy could approve an assisted suicide without knowing the patient or having had any training. So much for the âstrictest safeguards in the worldâ!
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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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A fiery defence for the unborn from a Queens University Belfast student on The @BBCNolan Show! đĽđĽ. #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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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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đ¨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. đ§ľ1/
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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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đ¨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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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
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Liz Carr - MPs may trust doctors to manage assisted dying. Disabled people like me cannot
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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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đ¨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 âassisted dyingâ. Every single proposed safeguard has been rejected. Danny Kruger (@danny__kruger MP) shines light on what this means.
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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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Baby born at 22 weeks opens his eyes for the first time. đ. 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. đŞ. Take action. Email your MLA now:
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A proxy can sign an assisted suicide request âfor any other reasonâ - 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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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"đą
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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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The Sun - MPs backing assisted dying are braced for legislation to collapse amid fury over the handling of the Bill:
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âWeâve 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 usâ. 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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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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Kim Leadbeater lets the cat out of the bag. Assisted suicide wonât just be for those in physical pain but anyone who wants it if theyâre terminally ill. She cites âpsychological sufferingâ, âmental tormentâ &âfearâ. But a healthy society offers support not suicide in such cases.
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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
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If youâre still on the fence about the assisted suicide Bill and where it might lead, watch this chilling video. As @danny__kruger asks, âWhat on earth are we doing?â
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Danny Kruger (@danny__kruger) disputes Kim Leadbeater's assertion that "she's done her job very, very well" when she's suddenly decided her Bill is "deficient in its central part".
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NEWSFLASH: Assisted suicide Committee votes to pass Clause 4 of the Bill, which allows doctors proactively to talk about assisted suicide with patients. Amendments to protect people with Downâs syndrome, autism, learning disabilities and under-18s were all rejected.
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A Scottish mum refused persistent pressure to abort her baby diagnosed with a disability - and gave birth to a healthy sonđ.
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Andrew Rosindell MP (@AndrewRosindell) on the progress of the assisted suicide Bill: "I believed Kim Leadbeater when she assured us that sunlight would win the day and there was to be full public scrutiny of the Bill. I now know that wasnât true".
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At 19.55, Bill opponent Naz Shah apologises for leaving the session early due to her disability. She points out sheâs spoken repeatedly about this to the Bill sponsor, whoâs been criticised for scheduling late sittings in order to rush scrutiny and wear out opponents.
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In a very significant intervention, former PM Gordon Brown has called for Parliament to improve end-of-life care rather than introduce assisted suicide:
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Naz Shah MP (@NazShahBfd): When there are complications in assisted suicide, patients may vomit and undergo seizures. In one assisted suicide, the patient took 137 hours to die - 5 days and 17 hours.
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Former Paralympian Baroness Grey-Thompson believes the combination of legalising assisted suicide and introducing significant benefit cuts will pressure terminally ill people with disabilities to end their lives early.đ˘ Read the full article here:
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Sarah Olney MP (@sarahjolney1) "How can we properly scrutinise this legislation when new amendments are being made at the last minute, which potentially change the entire nature of the legislation that we're attempting to scrutinise?". The removal of the High Court safeguard
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đ¨ Wow! - Pro-assisted suicide MP Lewis Atkinson explicitly states his view that a care home should NOT be allowed to choose to be an assisted suicide-free zone. Assisted suicide is not merely being legalised but imposed it seems.
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Leading psychiatrists have criticised Kim Leadbeaterâs assisted suicide Bill, warning that the legislation will âundermineâ their work in preventing suicides and put pressure on vulnerable people to end their lives. đ Read the full article here:
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Naz Shah MP (@NazShahBfd) highlights that forcing hospices and care homes to allow assisted suicide - or lose funding - is both immoral and impractical. No institution should be strong-armed into having lethal drugs taken on their premises.
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Minister Stephen Kinnock MP says denying the "treatment" of assisted suicide to prisoners would be illegal. But as Naz Shah MP rightly points out, assisted suicide is not actually a "treatment". It doesnât treat any disease or illness - it simply ends a life.
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Prof Allan House: The Bill does not explain what 'assisting' someone to use a 'medical device' to end their life might mean. There's also no standard informed consent form. The litany of issues with this dangerous Bill just goes on and on.
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NEW: Cooling off period rejected!. MPs vote down amendment requiring a cooling-off period of 28 days after a terminal diagnosis before a conversation about assisted suicide can happen. This would have prevented deaths arising from initial shock/depression after terminal
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MPs met for a third week to go through the assisted suicide Bill line-by-line - in the end, over 80 amendments to protect the vulnerable were rejectedđ¤ Read the full article here:
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â ď¸Audacious doublespeak from Kim Leadbeater! She claims her Bill will protect âall vulnerable communitiesâ. Why then did she reject safeguards for the following?:.1 Anorexia.2 Downâs syndrome.3 Suicidal ideation.4 Mental illness.5 Autism.6 Under 18s.7 Diabetes.8 Domestic abuse
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THEN: In November, Kim Leadbeater used emotive stories of people in agony to convince MPs to vote for assisted suicide. TODAY: Leadbeater rejected an amendment requiring a person to be in pain to be eligible to die.
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Danny Kruger (@danny__kruger) points out that Kim Leadbeater chose to hear evidence from 3 Australian and 2 American doctors, all of whom are supporters and practitioners of assisted suicide. Why are we not hearing from doctors who oppose assisted suicide from these
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Kim Leadbeater is rewriting history. EXCLUSIVE: In an email to all MPs this week, the sponsor of the assisted suicide Bill claimed MPs had "voted by a majority of 55 to support the principle of the Bill". This is spin. It contradicts her assurance to MPs at Second Reading that
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đ¨BIG MOMENT: In new interview, Kim Leadbeater suggests the supposed safeguards in her assisted suicide Bill could last as little as â5 or 10 yearsâ before they may be removed. This Bill is not safe. The interviewer concludes "Is the assisted dying Bill on its last legs"?
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Assisted suicide proponent Dr Amanda Ward tells MPs that they "really need to trust your international colleagues" and stop worrying about "what [the assisted suicide Bill] might do". Probably not the most vapid thing said today but it's got to be close.
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đ¨Extraordinary spin from Kim Leadbeater. Having removed her flagship safeguard & refused amendments to protect people with anorexia, Downâs syndrome, autism, learning difficulties, diabetes & domestic abuse victims, under 18s & homeless people, she claims her Bill is stronger!
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Britain's longest-serving MPs, the Mother and Father of the House of Commons, Diane Abbott and Sir Edward Leigh, have released a joint statement calling for MPs to reject the assisted suicide BillđŞ Read the full article here:
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Danny Kruger (@danny__kruger): Forcing hospices to allow assisted suicide, despite the deep discomfort of staff and residents, is an extreme overreach. Hospices must have the right to opt out.
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The moment pro-assisted suicide MPs voted (by 13 votes to 8) to REJECT amendment that would have stopped doctors from suggesting assisted suicide to 16 and 17-year-olds. Doctors should not be able to suggest assisted suicide as an option to children ahead of their 18th birthday.
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Tim Farron MP (@timfarron): My opposition to this bill is grounded in compassion. To legalise assisted dying is to create the space for coercion that will undoubtedly see people die who would not have chosen to do so. There are no safeguards in this bill that will prevent this.
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Kit Malthouse doesn't want families to be included in assisted suicide panel decisions because family members might want that person to live. Is that such a bad thing?
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Sir Nicholas Mostyn wants to redefine terminal illness. He wants the Bill to be for people with "intolerable suffering", without the need to be terminally ill. This is exactly what happened in Canada.
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Minister Stephen Kinnock MP says he personally agrees with @danny__kruger amendment but the Government does not. Why is the Government opposing a safeguard that even its own pro-assisted suicide minister recognises is important? What happened to Government 'neutrality'?
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A palliative care doctor debunks myths about assisted suicide live on Channel 4âđŠş
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Danny Kruger MP (@danny__kruger) highlights a troubling issue with Leadbeater's Bill: it requires the Government to fund assisted suicide, but makes no provision to fund the supply of palliative care. These priorities are all wrong.
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đĽMUST WATCH: Kim Leadbeater promised her Bill would have the âstrictest safeguards anywhere in the worldâ. But at Committee Stage, which has just ended, over 300 amendments that would have protected vulnerable people & prevented abuses were REJECTED. Here are just some of them:
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Kim Leadbeater implies for the "terminally ill", 'being a burden' is a legitimate reason for assisted suicide. Disturbing. đ¨. đ Find out more on the latest developments of the Assisted Suicide Bill here:.
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In Canada, some doctors earn most of their income by ending patientsâ lives, billing the government per death. One has been involved in over 400 cases - calling the work âvery rewardingâ. Important piece from @yuanyi_z on privatising assisted death.
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Comedian, actor and disability activist, Liz Carr, makes a powerful case against the Leadbeater assisted suicide Billđ˘
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đ¨BREAKING: Leadbeater Committee astoundingly REJECTS key safeguard that would have prevented doctors from proactively offering the option of assisted suicide even to patients not asking for it. This will put vulnerable patients, who trust doctors & feel a burden, at grave risk.
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LATEST: Leadbeater Committee votes down @JamesCleverly amendment to prevent assisted suicide âfor the benefit of othersâ i.e. feeling a financial or emotional burden. Amendment was signed by MPs as diverse as Sir Julian Lewis and Diane Abbott, yet rejected by the Committee.
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Toby Porter, CEO of Hospice UK: We project that over the coming 25 years, the need for palliative care is going to rise by 25%, with around 150,000 more people each year needing palliative care. And we have no plan, no plan at all to address the scale of that challenge. This
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đ§ľEXCLUSIVE: Dignity in Dying, the pressure group behind the assisted suicide Bill, has secretly changed its position since Second Reading of the Bill. Demonstrating its own slippery slope, it has disowned 2 key safeguards & now supports an expanded law, including euthanasia. 1/
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SIGNIFICANT DEVELOPMENT: BMA Consultants Conference has voted through a strongly worded motion - states Leadbeater assisted suicide Bill "raises serious potential moral hazards for consultants, and serious potential adverse impacts on health services".
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MPs were asked to vote for one thing; now, they are being offered something very different. What other safeguards would quickly be removed if assisted suicide becomes law?. The only safe law is no law.
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Telegraph: "How many wrongful deaths are we prepared to tolerate as a society? In the case of capital punishment, societyâs answer has been 'one is too many'. But the Leadbeater Billâs promoters seem to be willing to tolerate a great many such deaths." .
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đ¨IMPORTANT: The new assisted suicide Bill Impact Assessment time & again says itâs ânot possibleâ to estimate the impact of the Bill because Kim Leadbeater hasnât disclosed how assisted suicide would work. MPs will be asked to vote on something without knowing its full impact!
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BIG ADMISSION: Leadbeater makes clear her 'death panels' are not 'Judge Plus' after all, despite previous claims. She now admits the panel would not be a judicial entity & no one would give evidence under oath. Naz Shah & @danny__kruger highlight how much this weakens her Bill.
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BREAKING: Major pro-life victory as attempt to introduce abortion on demand, for any reason, up to birth fails đđ
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Daniel Francis MP (@danfrancis02) cites Mencap evidence that Do Not Resuscitate orders were made on peoples' behalf during COVID. How can we be sure doctors wonât make other serious decisions on behalf of people with learning difficulties if assisted suicide is an option?
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Danny Kruger MP (@danny__kruger) explains that people with Down's syndrome may interpret a doctor's discussion of assisted suicide as a suggestion and therefore may be influenced to "choose" it because of this suggestion.
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Danny Kruger (@danny__kruger) dismantles Dr Simon Opherâs absurd claim that end-of-life care isnât healthcare. Palliating symptoms, treating pain and supporting patients IS healthcare. Assisted suicide, on the other hand? Thatâs something else entirely.
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đ¨NEUTRALITY ALERT! Has health minister Stephen Kinnock just let slip the Governmentâs bias? He says âI think⌠we would like to have an Actâ & then has to correct himself as he remembers the Bill is a matter for Parliament. Whoâs pulling the strings behind the scenes?
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Danny Kruger (@danny__kruger) asks Kim Leadbeater if she remembers there were over 60 MPs who have stated they voted for the Bill at Second Reading because of the High Court Judge safeguard. Last night, Leadbeater announced plans to drop this safeguard.
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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CONFUSION! The Kim & Kit Show. Malthouse & Leadbeater canât agree on whether assisted suicide would be administered by the state or private companies that may profit. If the cheerleaders of the Bill have no idea how it would work, how can MPs or the public have confidence in it?
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Leadbeater says she has "listened carefully" to the evidence. Why then has she ignored the concerns of palliative care doctors, eating disorders groups, Down's syndrome charities, psychiatrists, the British Geriatrics Society and so many others?
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Dan Hitchens (@ddhitchens) writes for The Telegraph - Kim Leadbeaterâs untruths were important ones. Take her three misstatements on the court process. First, Leadbeater implied she had the approval of the serving judiciary when she didnât. Second, she claimed the billâs
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Diane Abbott has warned it could soon be cheaper for GPs to encourage seriously unwell patients to âsign on the dotted line for assisted suicideâ than to find them a place in a hospice.
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Leadbeater describes safeguards designed to protect vulnerable people from assisted suicide as "hoops and hurdles".
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A real life example of why legalising assisted suicide would be so dangerous. People would die by mistake. Peter Sefton-Williams bravely shares his story of misdiagnosis. Urge your MP to prevent such tragedies by opposing this Bill:
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