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This is the speech I would have given in UK Parliament against assisted suicide. House of Lords must resist the drum beat of euthanasia demanding, instead, world class comprehensive palliative and hospice care. youtube.com/live/QliL4CGc7… -and

In 2012 I met the president of Compassion & Choices - the USA version of Dignity in Dying She said that to legalise medically 'assisted suicide' you must 1st change the culture - including the language Assisted suicide is being rebranded as the more palatable 'assisted dying'

#PalliativeCare leader Baroness Finlay argues that "choice" requires care access, and stresses that ending treatment is not tantamount to #assistedsuicide. Unethical to pass poor legislation while leaving the care of ½million patchy, inadequate, and dependent on ad hoc charity.

Baroness Finlay speaks as a palliative care specialist: "This Bill, as written, does not improve patient choice or control."

I’ve written in a bit more depth about my concerns regarding the unavoidable risk of coercion and abuse in introducing Assisted Dying bill to England and Wales. As they say, follow the money… 🙄 drmusgrave.substack.com/p/assisted-dyi…

“One time a doctor was speaking to my sister and I was awake. He told her that she should contemplate letting me go because of my quality of life.” “I was right there. It felt like they had just given up on me and I was invisible… like I was… a thing.” itv.com/news/2025-11-1…

So it is fine for influential people to privately advocate for a change in the law under which vulnerable people will foreseeably come to harm, and their only regret is that their thoughts are made public?

It is NOT medical treatment. It is the opposite! Liz "blue tick" Carr

Claire Fox Tanni Grey-Thompson Lord Harper and Baroness Grey-Thompson welcome back disability rights leader Baroness Campbell after a long (unavoidable) absence. She tells Peers: "there is an answer to burden: good social care support." She quotes disabled people who've told her that if they lost their

Claire Fox Tanni Grey-Thompson Mark Harper Lord David Frost quotes official guidance on drafting legislation ("use precise and concrete words rather than vague and abstract words"). July 2021 UK polling found >½ thought “assisted dying” meant “providing hospice-type care to people who are dying” or “giving people who

Claire Fox Baroness Fox: ‘I think it's important that we're frank and open’, and if you ingest poison with the intent of ending your life, that is suicide. Says it's interesting that support as indicated by polling drops substantially depending on which phrase is used: “assisted dying” or

“Assisted dying” or “#assistedsuicide”? Lord Moore says that the Bill's supporters champion autonomy; it should follow that the language embodies the person's agency. “It's very contradictory to advocate autonomy, then take refuge in euphemism.”

“Assisted dying” or “#assistedsuicide”? “If people find it uncomfortable and distressing to be clear and plain-speaking about what we're doing, then I think that should make us pause to ask if what we're doing is the right thing. We shouldn't change the language to make the

And we need to continue to be committed to suicide prevention. Also to providing fair and adequate access to the best possible palliative care for all who need it, and social support for those living with disability and/or chronic illness #binthebill

#PalliativeCare doctor & former BMA President Baroness Finlay: “trying to hammer the bill through with all the dangers [in it] is incredibly irresponsible.” Former Disabled People's Minister Lord Harper: Falconer “wants to force through a bill which is unsafe and deficient.”

Did he think Tanni Grey-Thompson wouldn’t notice this? Why is he trying to weaken the safeguards for the learning disabled which were established in the Commons by Daniel Francis MP?

Doing assisted death/suicide medical consultations via remote video like Zoom is NOT SAFE A gift to any coercive controllers and bad for medical assessment. Amazing this even has to be argued by Baroness (Dr) Finlay in House of Lords It was something we learnt during Covid

This is simply a sly shift of the goal posts. I meant it when I said these drugs caused me suffering at 16. These drugs should not be available to anyone with normal hormonal/sexual development, 10 years old, 14 OR 16. Money talks. Thank you to my lawyers who over the years

We’ve directed people to Rebecca Says No 💚🤍💜 in our Substack round up this week because her research on NHS capture is thorough beyond belief. She has her own Substack here substack.com/@rebeccasaysno…