Dame Esther Rantzen urges Lords not to hold up assisted dying bill | Politics | News
Dame Esther Rantzen, who was supported by the dying -in -law, called on the members of the Lords Assembly not to prevent the turning point legislation.
Adults with terminal patients (end of life) cleared Bill Commons with 23 votes on Friday with 23 votes, but competitors promised to continue their resistance in the unleaded room.
The legislation may encounter a difficult passage through the lords, and critics are preparing to make changes to add more restrictions and assurance to the bill.
Dame Esther BBC Radio 4 said today: “I don’t have to teach the House of Lords how to do their jobs. They know it very well and know that the laws are produced by the selected room.
“To examine things, ask questions, but to oppose.
“Yes, people who are decisively opposed to this bill and have the perfect right to resist, will try to try to pass through the Lords, but the Lords themselves, their duties, the law is actually created by the chosen chamber, which is actually the chosen chamber that votes it.”
Dame Esther, who was 85 years old on Sunday and has terminal cancer, acknowledged that the legislation would probably not become a law over time to use it, and that he had to “buzz to Zurich” to use the Dignitas clinic.
Palympian and Crossbench Peer Barones Tanni Gray-Thompson told BBC Breaks: “We are preparing to change it from my Lord and my personal perspective to make it stronger.
“We were told to be the most powerful bill in the world, but to be honest, it is not a very high bar for other legislation.
“So I think there are many more measures to be put.”
Lord Shinkwin, a conservative peer and disability rights campaign, underlined that the majority of narrow joints should look closely at the legislation.
Today, he said, “I think the House of Lords is the task of exposing and exposing this bill to judicial examination”, but “I don’t think this is too much to block our mission as a revised room.”
“Yesterday, the margin was so close that many deputies, disabled people, whether old people, would appreciate the opportunity to look again because they were about those who feel vulnerable.”
Kim Leadbeater, who directed the bill through Commons, said to the PA news agency that he hoped to remove the legislation that the parliamentary time may be exhausted if his peers are kept on the lords.
He said: “I would be upset to think that everyone was playing such an important and emotional issue.”
A group of 27 labor deputies who voted against the legislation said: “We were chosen to represent both of these groups and we are deeply worried about the risks in the invoice of old and discrimination against the disabled, anorexia and black, Asia and minority ethnic people.
“As the bill passes to the House of Lords, it should take the examination it needs. It is not the principles of assisted death, but to this deep defective invoice.”
Meanwhile, one of the leading competitors of the bill, Danny Kruger, “These are the times of apocalypse,” he said.
In a series of tweets on Friday night, the Eastern Wiltshire deputy contradicted his mother was accused of being the “anti-militant anti-Christians”, which could not interact with the details of the bill with the support of the great British judge Dame Prue Leith.
