Care Not Killing

🚨Since November 2024, the #AssistedDyingBill has been weakened, not strengthened. ⚠️The risks to the vulnerable and coerced have grown and are simply too great. 🧵Below is a thread of 150 people, organisations and voices urging MPs to think again on Friday 20 June👇…

“As members of the Lords, we take our responsibility seriously. We must and will do what is necessary to safeguard those who are most vulnerable in our midst”, writes @DavidAltonHL 🗣️ Peers have a duty to scrutinise the flawed assisted suicide bill politics.co.uk/comment/2025/0…

🇸🇮 Slovenia's "Commission for Medical Ethics stated this week that they remain opposed to the law on the basis that it contains insurmountable ethical risks." #assistedsuicide

The annual assisted dying reports produced by jurisdictions like Washington and Oregon are far from adequate. But they’re better than nothing. It’s astonishing that they could be axed. Note- an amendment to the TIA Bill that specified what must be reported annually was rejected.

Reassured by the promise of annual "assisted dying" reports? Washington state had those, but no more. "Due to funding cuts... a 2024 annual statistical report will not be released." #AssistedSuicide deaths will continue, though. nationalreview.com/corner/washing…

Brilliant, enraging analysis from NHS psychiatrist @george_gillett:

A month on from the Commons vote on assisted suicide, it’s clear that quite a few MPs were confused about the bill or influenced by misinformation. Here are 10 examples:

The Assisted Dying Bill is 'one of the Government's major priorities' according to this official answer. I hope this will be corrected @wesstreeting questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questi…

Why the Lords doesn’t have to accept the Assisted Dying Bill The reality is that both the House of Commons and the House of Lords play an equal role in the passing of legislation, except when it comes to matters of financial privilege ✍️ Nikki Da Costa…

🇨🇭 ‘Senior citizens were 42 times more likely to take their own lives in 2023 than people in other age groups, according to Swiss public broadcaster, RTS. ‘And the numbers are increasing.’ ➡️ alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2025/07/elder-… #assistedsuicide

“I'm not sure people understand the humiliation when it's not a disabled person's fault.” The Leadbeater Bill would allow doctors to suggest #assistedsuicide to patients, unbidden, at a time when disabled people are shamed for having basic needs met. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Falconer suggested that the Lords must ‘uphold’ what ‘the Commons have decided to go ahead with’. A rather novel downgrading of our second house . I’ve explored this further in the @spectator

These suicide clinics are proud of their toll. One Swiss clinic even “prioritizes people who are elderly but not seriously ill,” while others willingly engage in geriatric assisted suicide of depressed elders if they have other conditions. nationalreview.com/corner/suicide…

Dutch Government-commissioned study ― in 2021: 🇳🇱 517 lives ended without explicit request (LAWER) 🇳🇱 9,799 assisted deaths overall (#euthanasia, #assistedsuicide & LAWER), despite the annual report saying 7,666, suggesting 22% weren't properly reported lifenews.com/2025/07/15/net…

“Lucy Dunn speaks to Kathleen Stock and Nikki da Costa about the moral, ethical and legal implications of assisted dying, the personal stories behind the campaign, and the potential consequences for patients, doctors and society.” #NotThisBill youtu.be/dK86IFhAqw0?si…

On Assisted Dying she says this Interesting contrast with Lord Falconer who thinks the Lords shouldn't cause much trouble Given how narrow the commons vote is, and the lack of absolute majority in the Commons, the Lords would be perfectly entitled to reject it outright

I hope the Assisted Dying Bill is “completely different”. It should not have passed as it was drafted but that’s for others to wrestle with - and justify. We shouldn’t have sent a Bill to be “improved” or “corrected” to the House of Peers. We should have done it.

“It is well established that people living with heart failure have a high symptom burden and risk dying in hospital as the default, without adequate support to enable them to live well.” For #palliativecare to improve, must address differing non-cancer needs and experiences.

“Lords are also entitled to feel frustrated that Lord Falconer expects the more diligent of the two Houses to cut short scrutiny.” If Bill sponsors had been serious, “more work should have been done in the Commons to ease the responsibility of the second House.” #NotThisBill