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"The scrapping of High Court oversight for the assisted dying regime... fundamentally weakens the protections for the vulnerable... [and] creates an unaccountable quango and to claim otherwise misrepresents what is being proposed."
🚨 A group of 26 Labour MPs have expressed their anger at the removal of the High Court-approval clause in the #AssistedDyingBill
Prof Louis Appleby, who chairs the government’s national suicide prevention strategy advisory group, also said he took issue with MPs who said it was offensive to call assisted dying “suicide” – saying that it was wrong to bar the use of that phrase in this context.
🚨The government’s suicide prevention adviser has said that legalising assisted dying in England and Wales may cause major issues in suicide prevention work if the state effectively concedes that taking one’s own life should be allowed in some circumstances.
“Not only would you be having to fund the staff from a range of professions, but you’d also have to be doing profession-specific training. This would be new to all of us.”
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Luke Geoghegan, of the British Association of Social Workers, which represents 22,000 members, told The Telegraph: “This is not a bolt-on to existing services. This is something qualitatively different.
🚨Social workers are too busy to sit on #AssistedDying panels, Kim Leadbeater has been warned.
"Where assisted death is legal for people with mental health conditions, 67–77 per cent of those euthanised for psychiatric conditions are women."
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"[In committee], not only were expert witnesses proclaiming that a few mistaken deaths weren’t a significant issue, and that feeling like a burden is a legitimate reason to die, but the 'strong protections' promised in the Bill’s first draft are also melting away."
"During the run-up to the vote in the House of Commons ... Leadbeater and her minions dismissed concerns from disabled people, who believe the Bill could further cheapen their lives in an ableist society that would already prefer us to go quietly into the night."
"Assisted death is barrelling toward legalisation with abandon, throwing out safeguards with every step," writes Hannah Shewan Stevens
#AssistedDyingBill #assistedsuicide
"You are asking a profession that can’t fill a quarter of its consultant jobs with full-time consultants if they want to release 30 people to do this work… [I]s there sufficient capacity? It is not at all clear that there is.” Prof House
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🚨Two eminent professors of psychiatry have warned that Leadbeater's plan to scrap the involvement of a High Court judge and replace them with psychiatrists was “probably not” feasible.
#assistedsuicide #AssistedDying
Leadbeater Bill committee 11 Feb:
Danny Kruger asked about "somebody who is depressed and indeed suicidal successfully apply[ing] for" #assistedsuicide.
Neil Shastri-Hurst tried to separate those seeking AS because of their terminal illness, OR their depression — but people aren't that simple.
They also argue it contradicts Ms Leadbeater’s earlier claims that disabled people are outside the Bill’s “scope”.
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Campaigners and MPs who oppose the Bill warn the change would not only enable anorexia sufferers to access assisted dying but also fail to protect people whose mental illnesses cause self-neglect and low mood.
🚨On Wednesday, Ms Leadbeater put forward an amendment to the #assistedsuicide bill which confirmed that having a mental disorder or disability would not disqualify someone from accessing the service.
