Tanni Grey-Thompson
@Tanni_GT
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Lady GT (no longer a Dame), House of Lords Crossbench Peer, Chair Sport Wales, and Dof E, DL, Mum, Welsh, Paralympian. Email [email protected]
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This doctor has assisted over 400 people to end their lives by suicide or euthanasiađą
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We need to listen to this. Such a huge change to health care & societyâs values. Professions it relies on not supportive. Isnât it time to stop & work through most difficult issues jointly & without accusations of bad faith. A Private Memberâs Bill was never the right vehicle.
It is not too late to put the brakes on assisted dying, and focus on improved palliative, social and end-of-life care https://t.co/eKVlyfTxj6
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https://t.co/M2AT8MS8oq Palliative Care is a cinderella service in Northern Ireland
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A widower is sharing his wife's story ahead of a report on access to palliative care services in NI.
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Baroness Grey-Thompson: Vermont and Oregon has changed residency requirement, now 6% of Oregon ADs are of those outside the state. Cites research saying probably an underestimate and likely to grow.
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Baroness Grey-Thompson: Death tourism is a recognised phenomenon, Isle of Man has five-year residency requirement for that reason. Death tourism could cause difficulties for health services and raises questions about people taking decisions outside their support systems.
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Baroness Grey-Thompson: one argument for the bill is inequality re who can go to Dignitas, but if we don't get this section (residency) right that inequality will still exist.
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WELL SAID! In an excellent speech, ex-Ofsted Chief Inspector Baroness @amanda_spielman highlights the inconsistency whereby some vulnerable young people under 25 would be protected by the state, while others would be provided âdeath on demandâ if the assisted suicide Bill passes.
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Morning all. Will be tweeting the Lords committee on the assisted suicide bill. The background to today's session: an increasingly fractious debate on the role of the Lords, and this week's revelations about the possible origins of the bill:
EXC - I've seen a leaked policy document from Labour in opposition which sets out how to approach assisted dying. The document sets out how it could be introduced as a private memberâs bill, suggesting that would still allow âheavy influenceâ for the government in the process
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Didnât really get any answers to anything I talked about today
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Palliative care needs investment so people have real choice
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Today in Canada's House of Commons!! #ndp
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#CANADA TODAY in Ottawa Is the Second Reading of Conservatives Private Members Bill #C218 to Amend Criminal Code for MAID for Mental Health Only Criteria! Please watch the #HoC today on @CPAC_TV provide your feedback to debate! Based on UN Repeal demand https://t.co/rB0o9bFbWf
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So far Starmerâs assisted suicide bill has circumvented: âThe electorate (nothing in manifesto) âMinisters (banned from speaking) âExperts (excluded by Commons committee) âMPs (urged to vote yes so Lords could fix it) âNow Lords (told they are filibustering if they scrutinise)?
EXC - I've seen a leaked policy document from Labour in opposition which sets out how to approach assisted dying. The document sets out how it could be introduced as a private memberâs bill, suggesting that would still allow âheavy influenceâ for the government in the process
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Why was Lord Charles Falconer so confident about this?
âWatch this space for after the electionâ This is what a very confident Lord Falconer told @thelizcarr for her BBC documentary (broadcast in May 2024)
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Read the Times Leader and in The Guardian - @GordonBrown who is right that âIt is not too late to put the brakes on assisted dying, and focus on what is really needed | Palliative care is deeply underfunded and unequal. Assisted dying cannot go ahead until politicians right that
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Complete abuse of the system by the PM: "It is now clear that the process in the Commons bypassed the usual processes for developing laws of this magnitude and that everyone has been misled about the nature and origin of the bill"! And the Lords should just acquiesce?!
EXC - I've seen a leaked policy document from Labour in opposition which sets out how to approach assisted dying. The document sets out how it could be introduced as a private memberâs bill, suggesting that would still allow âheavy influenceâ for the government in the process
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Interesting how assisted dying supporters ignore the 300 every day who can't access the specialist palliative care they desperately need. .. and the "17 a day" is based on a maths exercise by economists, not a clinical study -yet more Myth-information from @dignityindying
@historykev every single opponent of this choice is directly responsible for 17 agonising deaths a day. They need to own that, and of course accept that it may happen to them too.
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Holyrood 'assisted dying' legislation is still âriddled with problemsâ after completing the second stage of parliamentary scrutiny, an academic has said.
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Could be quite seismic for Labour: it may soon be party policy that the state can offer lethal drugs to sufficiently ill people âfor example, because you are poorâ. Not exactly Bevan and Attlee.
Falconer confirms: people will die under his AS bill because they are poor. âWhere the reasonâŚis because in your mind you are influenced by your circumstancesâfor example, because you are poorâshould you be barred from having an assisted death...? In my view [you should] not.â
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Get to Newport station. Their lifts are out. About across to member of staff and he says heâs coming over
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