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Fiona Robertson fionaswriting.bsky.social

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Disability Justice, feminist, equalities consultant, writer, performance poet.

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Becca Jiggens should be writing 🇵🇸🕊️ (@beccajiggens) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Disabled people today get to learn whether their MP is worth approaching for disability related issues, or whether they just think that legalising killing us with no scrutiny, no autopsy, and complete immunity for those involved in the killing is acceptable.

Madeline Grant (@madz_grant) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Kim Leadbeater keeps getting key aspects of her bill wrong. Is it ignorance or malice? There have been so many that I’m not sure plausible deniability can be argued here

Tom Bennett OBE (@tombennett71) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Those adverts on the tube selling suicide as amazing and joyful are excruciating. I can’t believe they were allowed in an environment where desperate people often take their lives. And they’re still up. When I consider the adverts they did ban (but not these) I conclude the

DPAC Sheffield #FightTheRealEnemy 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈♿️ (@dpacsheffield) 's Twitter Profile Photo

If the NHS wasn’t on its knees If care and community services were adequately funded If the DWP supported Disabled and dying people sufficiently …but this Bill is not right and our society is so far from where it needs to be. Vote NO ❌ #AssistUsToLive

Yuan Yi Zhu (@yuanyi_z) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Jess Asato MP Jess Asato Jess Asato MP: every week we hear of judges not correctly identifying coercive control. Where is the gender analysis in this? 100% of anorexia assisted suicides in the world were for women. I am voting against.

Yuan Yi Zhu (@yuanyi_z) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Jess Asato MP Sian Berry Sian Berry supports the bill - she says that the bill should be expanded at the next stage. Do you remember Kim Leadbeater saying her bill can never be expanded? The bill hasn't had its second reading yet and we are already on the bloody slippery slope!

Yuan Yi Zhu (@yuanyi_z) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Robert Jenrick Florence Eshalomi MP This is a very moving speech by Florence Eshalomi Florence Eshalomi MP. Speaks of her mother who had a disease who was going to kill her eventually, but who wanted to live. True freedom only exists if you have a choice in life.

Paula Peters (@paulapeters2) 's Twitter Profile Photo

#AssistUsToLive Rensa with her placard at the Parliament vigil Canadian assisted dying was for terminal illness now unmet social needs eg homelessness UK wait for wheelchair accessible social housing is 47 years

#AssistUsToLive 

Rensa with her placard at the Parliament vigil Canadian assisted dying was for terminal illness now unmet social needs eg homelessness 
UK wait for wheelchair accessible social housing is 47 years
Philip Murray (@philipmurraylaw) 's Twitter Profile Photo

If this debate has confirmed anything, it's that the Bill's main proponents, and especially those who co-signed it, totally fail to understand what they're asking Parliament to legislate for.

Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽 (@mssinenomine) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I am so sorry, first and foremost for the people of Britain. But selfishly also for those of us in Canada hoping you saw us and said 'hell no.' To bring in assisted suicide *after* watching what's happening here...leaves no doubt about how little value is placed on our lives.

DPAC (@dis_ppl_protest) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Money Talks Money Kills Disabled People Suffer Assisted Dying Bill Assisted Suicide Bill Your legacy of death by coercion of Disabled people continues

Fiona Robertson fionaswriting.bsky.social (@fionaswriting) 's Twitter Profile Photo

God, imagine a world where disabled people didn't have to spend all our (often limited) energy fighting for treatment, for care, for access, for our lives. The fight goes on.

Touretteshero (@touretteshero) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Devastated about what this means for our lives & communities. Sending love & solidarity to all the sick & disabled people who’ve shared their insight, experiences & fears! But particularly holding Liz "blue tick" Carr Not Dead Yet UK & DPAC in my heart. #AssistUsToLive

Fiona Robertson fionaswriting.bsky.social (@fionaswriting) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I'm also never going to understand why this ridiculous country just allows people to lie in Parliament. The author of the Bill repeatedly lied during this debate, giving the impression that safeguards have worked fine everywhere else, that access has never been expanded.

Disability Rights UK (@disrightsuk) 's Twitter Profile Photo

At a time when social care is chronically underfunded, and many Disabled people are unable to afford essentials, this legislation sends a chilling message: the government prioritises the right to die over the right to live. Full statement: disabilityrightsuk.org/news/dr-uks-st…

Fiona Robertson fionaswriting.bsky.social (@fionaswriting) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Imagine a world where disabled people didn't have to spend all our (often limited) energy fighting for treatment, for care, for access, for our lives. The fight goes on.

Fiona Robertson fionaswriting.bsky.social (@fionaswriting) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Solidarity this Hogmanay to the women raised in Scotland with chronic illnesses whose brains are currently screaming that the house HAS TO BE SPARKLING CLEAN BY THE BELLS OR TERRIBLE THINGS WILL HAPPEN and who've agreed with themselves putting out the recycling counts the same.

Solidarity this Hogmanay to the women raised in Scotland with chronic illnesses whose brains are currently screaming that the house HAS TO BE SPARKLING CLEAN BY THE BELLS OR TERRIBLE THINGS WILL HAPPEN and who've agreed with themselves putting out the recycling counts the same.