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Posted on 04/23/2026 9:43:51 PM PDT by Cronos
A small group in the House of Lords has proposed hundreds of amendments that are helping stymie a bill that was meant to legalize medically assisted death for the terminally ill.
Six hundred and eighty-eight.
That is the number of amendments that just seven members of Britain’s House of Lords have proposed to a bill that was meant to legalize assisted dying for the terminally ill.
So many amendments have been lodged — more than 1,280 in total — that the bill now seems doomed to fail, in a rare example of the Lords, Parliament’s unelected second chamber, blocking a bill approved by the House of Commons.
The House of Commons voted in a landmark decision in 2024 to allow assisted dying for some terminally ill, mentally competent adults.
The bill, which was scrutinized and amended in the months after, includes strict conditions. Only people who are over 18, and who have been given fewer than six months to live, would be eligible. Two doctors and a specialist panel would have to approve the decision, and patients would have to administer the lethal substance themselves.
Opponents in the Lords argue that the bill is poorly drafted and does not contain enough safeguards to protect vulnerable people from possibly being pressured into an assisted death. They have pointed to reservations expressed by some medical organizations, including the Royal College of Psychiatrists, the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of Pathologists. Proposing changes is their job, they say.
Humanists U.K., a group that supports the legislation and has been tracking its progress, said the impasse reflects the fact that procedures in the Lords allow a small number of members “who are vehemently opposed to the bill to block its passage.”
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Prayers for a renewed respect for LIFE in UK, the Commonwealth especially Canada, and all Europe.
Seven Lords NOT leaping!
Thank God for the House of Lords.p
Death love (thanatophilia) regards life as a disease process for which death is the “cure”.
Doesn't it though? OTOH, if memory serves, Blair started packing the House of Lords back in the 1990s, so there's probably some agenda-driven-life backstory here.
“The bill, which was scrutinized and amended in the months after, includes strict conditions. Only people who are over 18, and who have been given fewer than six months to live, would be eligible. Two doctors and a specialist panel would have to approve the decision, and patients would have to administer the lethal substance themselves.”
But that is not what ends up happening in many cases. Hello Canada.
reality is greedy impatient relatives pressuring the most vulnerable people to get it going.
And people in the process often want these people out faster as well, to save the government money, to free up space in the facility, or because of their personal ideology
Or leaping to the opportunity to defend the sacredness of life.
Ahhhh.
Good for them.
I always thought this could be a tactic for the Us Senate, unlimited Amendment
The House of Lords appears, in this instance, to be doing the Lord’s work!
Yes. And probably have those senators pull double duty as state senators as well. Save the cash
It's the ultimate slippery slope.
Doesn’t make me wonder at all. Of course they are. Its perfectly legal and the nyt is reporing on it like it’s the most horrendous thing in the qorld.
God bless and protect them.
Yes, repeal the seventeenth amendment.
NY Times makes it sound like a bad thing
Leftists love government bureaucracies killing people.
Makes you wonder if the unelected Lords aren’t doing a better job of public morality than the elected parliamentarians
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Exactly. I am sick and tired of “health care” being death for all.
Good men
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