Assisted Dying Bill fails to clear House of Lords
The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill failed to clear its stages in the House of Lords after peers filibustered the measure and the final debate concluded, causing Parliament to run out of time to pass assisted dying legislation. The bill had majority support in the House of Commons but did not complete the Lords stages before the parliamentary timetable expired, so it will not become law this session. The collapse leaves efforts to legalize assisted dying for terminally ill adults off the parliamentary agenda for now, prolonging the status quo on end of life choices.
This failure has only one certain consequence: ongoing unwanted suffering for thousands of dying people and their friends and families. The minority of peers who've talked this bill out have guaranteed that suffering will continue for now but the Bill will come back and eventually it will pass.
Denz Kerbo3Allow those suffering from incurable illnesses to die in peace - NO Send healthy young people to fight and die in foreign wars - YES House of Lords = Republicans Not surprising since the rich receive the best healthcare and obtain the best outcomes
Vivienne3Noticeable that, when one of Sydney's most beloved ABC radio presenters died using VAD yesterday, no one cared that he chose his own death, only that cancer had claimed another victim.
Martyn Brunt3I watched my sister fade away day by day for nine months before she died. In that time she lost every faculty, and it distressed her greatly. She didn't need to suffer like that, and I would have given anything to spare her the pain and indignity she felt. It's a scar I bear that will never heal.
Frances with an e2It is note worthy that it was the unelected house who were repsonsible for the Bill's failure. Reform is needed!
My assisted dying bill has a democratic mandate – the Lords who blocked it today do not | Kim Leadbeater
PhilT6028Maybe the Lords feel they are more at risk of families turning the Assisted Dying Bill against them?! Seriously, this is so wrong. End of life is complicated & undignified enough as it is. Allow people a final choice dear Lords!
occamseraser.bsky.social6I really despair at the determination of certain people (in this case unelected dotards and religious nutters) to ensure their fellow human beings are denied a dignified and peaceful death. I don't think they consciously intend to visit fear, suffering and humiliation on people. But they are.
iameuropean1.bsky.social5The Lords are, yet again, setting out why they should be abolished and a second elected chamber should be installed.
Bored Aardvark5Perhaps this time you could really listen to people’s concerns about the serious flaws in it, and not just let your supporters paint them all as religious nutters.
rembetis.bsky.social4Totally lost in this debate, and ignored by Kim Leadbeater, a coalition of over 350 disability rights organisation is against this Bill. It is essential that Kim Leadbeater and Parliament properly take their concerns on board before ramming a defective Bill through.
Andy Econo3Alternatively, she put a poorly written bill before parliament, appealed to emotion when peers (some of whom were disabled) amended it to reflect the concerns of disability rights organisations, and now she's having a tantrum.
Katie Thomas3Glad they blocked it. Glad that MPs have some scrutiny and accountability too.
Lucy Fyson3Abolish the House of Lords. (Yet another thing Starmer lied about. 👇) www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Yesfan1 🏴🏴🐸37 Lords a leaping over democracy!!!
Sue Pascoe3Not true. The Lords are conducting their proper constitutional duty as a revising chamber. The fact the bill didn’t have enough time to pass through parliament in the normal manner is partly because it was a private member’s bill and second it was badly drafted.
Lawrence2The House of Lords has to go! Hereditary and religious peerages are incompatible with democracy and justice. If the bigots who opposed this bill through the perversion of filibustering wish themselves to die in agony, that's fine by me, but to impose an insufferable death on others is pure evil!
John2I watched my dad decline & wither away with no dignity thanks to dementia. He said to me when it gets bad lad i want you to shoot me, of course i didn't but I'd want the same thing if I'm going to suffer the same fate.
The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill faces its final sitting in the House of Lords. The Bill is now certain to fall, not because of a democratic vote, but because a handful of unelected peers have deliberately and egregiously run down the clock. #AssistedDyingBill 🧵
Unreadylee5This make me SO angry, that a timy minority of over-privileged inbreds can have such a big effect on ordinary people.
So they delivered a perfect reason for abandoning the House of Lords?!?
Marlowe_UK3Because “It makes The Baby Jesus cry” Religion should have no place in law making.
I have little doubt the people opposed to the Assisted Dying Bill are ideologically driven, disregarding reason and compassion. GNU Terry Pratchett, shame on those people who withheld the right of reasonable people to reasonably choose not to suffer. @rhi.bsky.social
Edd Edmondson3I agree with the bill but I know many are scared of it and I respect their opinions. I don't think they're ideologically driven and disregarding reason and compassion. I think they have often had systems fail them before. That said...
Mushboom 2I've seen opposition from disability advocate circles specifically that raise concerns about implementation, and pressure & consent issues, that aren't based on ideology. Not saying I specifically think such issues are insurmountable but they're also not irrational.
EvilGav2If the commons actually wanted to, they can completely override the lords, there's deliberate mechanisms to allow it. This was *allowed* to die at the lords, because then MPs don't get asked difficult questions at election time.
Atalanta Pendragonne (They/Them)2You're oversimplifying a complicated issue. I used to be 100% in favor of MAID but seeing it offered freely to people who were denied the support and care that would allow them to live shook me. I absolutely think it should be a choice people are free to make, but not the sole option.
brilliant news & will be a huge relief to many. this evil bigoted government cannot be trusted with assisted dying
Doghouse Reilly7Feels like we’ve defused one of the many time bombs waiting for everyone!
x13X12x6Kim Leadbetter was on the news moaning about it the rancid ghoul
SinÉater3Yay Wes won’t be offering me a free(?) death anytime soon
J3like idk maybe having disabled people's health (nhs, such that it is), living (dwp) and death at the whim of the state might be bad
