Assisted dying bill is a ‘licence to kill’, Theresa May says | Assisted dying
The draft that will legalize the supported dying is a “killing license önen that risk vulnerable people. Theresa May, your legislation Discussed in the House of Lords first.
The former Prime Minister said that he was against the bill because he said that he could feel the disabled, chronic diseases or mental health conditions in England and Wales to end their lives, and there is a risk of strengthening a dangerous idea of legalization that some lives are worth living less than others ”. “I have a friend who says ‘Bill killing license’.”
In June, MPs voted to let the deadly patient in the UK and Wales to help adults to end their lives with a historical movement that could transform end -of -life care. Once the deputies have been examined by the Committee of the Deputies, their peers are no longer in detail the legislation, they have the opportunity to propose changes and even reject the bill, but the last one is not possible.
Lady May was one of the 190 peers planned to be speaking in a two -day debate, the first of them attracted passionate and emotional arguments on both sides, because many peers described the painful deaths of their loved ones and friends.
Charlie Falconer, who opened the debate on Friday, said that they voted in favor of deputies and “wants it” because it was the duty of the lords to pass the legislation.
Lord Faulkner, which is called as a Historical Opportunity ,, said that the current law is “confused, causing terrible pain and deprived of compassion and protection.
A former study was supported by Dawn Primarolo, the Minister of Public Health and said that the individual was the right to use agencies and autonomy on their own lives ”.
Lady Primarolo said: “A person’s life in peace and dignity and honor, when the alternative is very scary and terrible, to deny it when it is not compassionate. We need to facilitate this bill.”
Former Conservative Interior Minister Kenneth Baker, instead of dying people, as many of the opponents suggests, “But it will be completely realistic. Billions of costs. The Labor Party or Conservative Party will spend billions in their next manifies?
Others argued with equally passionate to the bill, some of which were against the principle; Others, workers’ deputy Kim Leadbeater as the invoice of a special member of the debated legislation form is defective and lack of assurances, he said.
“If it passes, this bill will show that we are a society that believes that some lives are not worth living.
Crossbench peer Kishwer Falkner, diagnosed with stage 3 ovarian cancer last year, “Grim Reaper’s hospital window in a haze of morphine,” he said. Although he previously supported assisted death, he said that the current bill asked many questions. Lady Falkner said: “I wish we didn’t have to deal with this defective bill, but we will do it in good faith.”
Peers will continue to discuss the bill on September 19.
