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Posted on 10/05/2024 8:32:58 AM PDT by DFG
British lawmakers will soon consider whether to give terminally ill adults a choice to end their own lives with medical assistance, after what proponents say is a shift in public opinion since a similar measure was rejected a decade ago.
Kim Leadbeater, a lawmaker from Britain's governing Labour Party who won a ballot giving her the right to introduce a bill on a subject of her choice, confirmed on Thursday that she would present a bill on assisted dying on Oct. 16.
"I ... strongly believe that we should give people facing the most unbearable end to their life a choice about what that end is like," she wrote in The Guardian newspaper.
The law is expected to allow mentally competent, terminally ill adults in England and Wales with six months or less left to live to choose whether to end their lives, and allow medics to help them. Under current law, assisting suicide is punishable by up to 14 years in jail.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer promised earlier this year to give lawmakers a free vote on the issue, meaning Labour, which won an election in July, will not instruct its members how to vote. Other parties have also told their members they can vote according to their consciences.
A number of lawmakers from all of Britain's major parties remain sceptical, notably expressing concern that terminally ill patients who are vulnerable and feel they are being a burden to their families could face pressure to end their lives.
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Let King Charles be the first to use it? Set an example.
Then the NHS can really get away with murder...
Aktion T4… In an amazing judo flip, the minute there’s a right to die, it turns into a an obligation to die. When people have the option of suicide, anyone seen not taking it when they have a terminal illness is seen as selfish.
The death cult never stops. Abortion, death panels, euthanasia, assisted suicide, sex changes to prevent breeding. They hate everything associated with life.
Everyone is “terminally ill” from the day they are born.
***with six months or less left to live to choose whether to end their lives***
My grand-uncle was an alcoholic. He was told his liver was a solid rock and he would die withing a few months.
He lived another 30 years.
First it is abortion, then euthanasia, then we follow the Kaiser Klaus directive and murder ze uselezz eaterz. NO!
Katie Hopkins latest on bat💩 bonkers Britain, including the euthanasia bill...
https://x.com/KTHopkins/status/1842116063942541700
Brilliant minute and a half summation.
It’ll be entirely voluntary, until it’s mandatory.
Camels nose into the tent. First aid the terminally ill, then aid the elderly, then aid the mentally disabled, then aid the handicap and finally aid political opponents.
My 95 year old mother was put on hospice care since she had less than six months to live....
and she blew through that...
Then a year later she was put back on hospice care since she had less than six months to live....
and she blew through that.
The third time she almost made it to the end of the six months.
I was talking to a local nurse about it and she cracked up—she acknowledged medical opinions about “terminal illness” timelines are only a touch above witch-craft.
Notice it is the countries with socialized medicine that want this? Soon, it will be mandatory. To save money.
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