Posted on 05/16/2025 5:32:39 AM PDT by RandFan
MPs have clashed over issues including the role of doctors in assisted dying as they debate proposed changes to a bill which would legalise the practice in England and Wales.
The legislation would allow terminally ill adults who are expected to die within six months to seek help to end their own life.
The bill passed its first stage in the Commons last November – but since then the details have been pored over and dozens of amendments added by both sides.
Further changes being considered by MPs include ensuring there is no obligation on anyone to provide assistance in the process and preventing medical staff from raising the option of assisted dying with a patient first.
A Commons vote on whether to pass the bill as a whole to its next stage or reject it is unlikely to take place until 13 June at the earliest.
Opening the debate, Kim Leadbeater, the Labour MP behind the bill, said the draft law had been "strengthened".
She said many people had "lost loved ones in deeply difficult and traumatic circumstances".
The MP for Spen Valley added: "Put simply, if we do not vote to change the law, we are essentially saying that the status quo is acceptable."
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Death panels are real!
Note that the ‘right’ to Euthanasia applies only the (remaining) Whites in Europe and Canada.
Well, not exactly, but something like 99% o the people using that ‘service’ are Whites. No evidence, but I suspect that most of them are head-cases because no one ever told them to ‘be a man’ or equivalent.
Shouldn’t those MPs promoting this go first as a proof of concept?
The UK is planning on freeing up some beds in its nursing homes.
Meanwhile, also from the UK...
Buckinghamshire Disability Service BuDS
@BuDs_UK
Our member, a care home manager, was asked today to estimate how many disabled residents might be eligible for medically-assisted suicide under the Leadbeater bill and how many places might be freed-up if the option was ‘assertively marketed’. Is this the future you want?
11:49 AM · May 14, 2025 123.7K Views
https://x.com/BuDs_UK/status/1922680741051105331
Per the author, the person asking the question was the group’s finance director.
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