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1/ This is breath taking. One of the responsibilities of the assisted suicide committee is to consider safeguards against domestic abuse and exploitation of the elderly. Diane Abbot's reasonable amendment asking for this has just been voted down. This is outrageous.

6/ This is beginning to look like an unserious exercise. The committee was voted against hearing from the Royal College of Psychiatrists and had to be publicly embarrassed into reversing position. Same with Disability Rights groups. Now it doesn't want to hear from abuse experts.

Afternoon making even clearer so much should have been consulted on and asked before bill put to MPs. Scale of change suggested in a single day and issues raised, really indicates a re-write of major parts against backdrop of problems with palliative care. 🚨Lack of

Over the last 2 days the Assisted Suicide Bill Committee has REFUSED amendments to exclude people with impaired judgement, the depressed and suicidal, prisoners and homeless people, those 'unduly influenced' by others, or those who are doing it because they feel a burden. 1/3

At the end Rebecca Paul MP and I managed to get Kim Leadbeater to admit that under her Bill a person would be able to get an Assisted Death for the sole reason of saving their relatives money. 3/3

Falconer confirms: people will die under his AS bill because they are poor. “Where the reason…is because in your mind you are influenced by your circumstances—for example, because you are poor—should you be barred from having an assisted death...? In my view [you should] not.”