MP offered private ambulance to parliament amid fears assisted dying bill could come down to one vote
A deputy was offered to use a special ambulance to bring him to parliament in the midst of fear that the great controversial assisted dying bill could fall into a single vote.
Sorchha Eastwood, a Northern Irish deputy, announced that he could not travel to Westminster for the Crunch vote at the beginning of this week.
He spoke with passion against the proposed invoice, but he said he did not want to put others at risk of getting the disease.
In contrast, entrepreneur Declan Ganley contacted him on social media to organize a private ambulance.
Previously, the deputy had published on social media: “My heart is really breaking that I cannot vote tomorrow”.
He said he did not believe that the bill was “either in law or social results ..
Since the proposal, he has published photos of the latest Covid tests and said he would go to Parliament for the vote if he tested negative on Thursday night.
The draft is on the edge of the knife, both sides campaignists make their last field to the deputies who hesitate.
MPs, without affecting the outcome, two deputies who have opposed positions to kidnap both in a system that allows them to miss both in key votes ‘matched’. However, this only applies to government bills where there is no assisted invoice.
On Thursday night, four Labor Party deputies Markus Campbell-Gavours, Kanishka Narayan, Paul Foster and Jonathan Hinder announced that they changed their votes to no.
MPs wrote more than 60 disabled organizations, emphasizing the concerns about the potential impact of the legislation on learning impaired.
They referred to the survey assigned by the Down Syndrome Research Foundation, which found great fears about how learning impaired people could express informed consent while applying to assisted suicide.
According to the survey, three -quarters of the public increased concerns about the possibility of consenting people with disabilities. He also found that approximately seven of the 10 people were afraid of learning impaired people may be particularly vulnerable to the risk of converting to a challenging suicide or manipulation if the bill is passed.
Kim Leadbeater, who brought the invoice, made his own last -minute objection to MPs to support the dying invoice that is assisted, and said that if it was rejected on Friday, the fatal patient adults may encounter a 10 -year waiting before discussing the problem.
The campaigns against the legislation called for the last ditch for the delay in Crunch, 52 workers asked Backbenchers Sir Keir Starmer to enter Starmer and give MPs more time to examine the bill.
However, the Prime Minister rejected the call, saying that there is a lot of time to discuss it both in parliament and beyond parliament.
If the bill exceeds the final stage on Friday, he will go to the House of Lords, which he warned that their peers plan to examine the legislation heavily.
