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On Friday 20 June MPs will place their final vote on Kim Leadbeater’s dangerous assisted suicide Bill.
Only 28 MPs needed to change their minds after Second Reading to defeat it – several already have. That makes this fight winnable – but only if people like you take action in your constituency.
Your local MP could cast the deciding vote on the Bill.
Every single vote will count. The numbers are tight, and the stakes couldn’t be higher.
That is why it is vital that your MP hears from you now, asking them to vote NO at Third Reading.
Why legalising assisted suicide would be a disaster
The introduction of the Bill comes at a time when palliative care services are in crisis, with over 100,000 people dying each year without receiving the palliative care they desperately need.
Our wider healthcare system is also in a state of crisis, with Labour’s own Health Secretary describing the NHS as “broken”.
Within this context, this proposed assisted suicide law is a disaster waiting to happen.
We only have to look overseas to countries that have legalised assisted suicide and/or euthanasia to see that, in practice, these laws have been a disaster.
The horror stories that are coming out of Canada are likely the ones that you are most familiar with. These include:
- army veterans with PTSD being offered ‘Medical Assistance In Dying’ (MAID)
- patients citing poverty or housing uncertainty as their main reason for seeking to end their lives through ‘MAID’
- numbers spiralling out of control: in 2016 when ‘MAID’ was introduced, there were just over 1,000 cases but by 2022 this escalated to 13,241 deaths, accounting for 4.1% of all deaths in Canada.
- Canada is now on the verge of introducing euthanasia and assisted suicide for people with mental health conditions, with this change in the law coming into effect in 2027.
There is also truly shocking evidence coming out of other countries and jurisdictions that have introduced assisted suicide and/or euthanasia.
In Oregon, a state frequently held up by UK campaigners as a model for introducing assisted suicide here, eligibility criteria in the law has expanded via the interpretation of ‘terminal illness’ so that assisted deaths have been granted for anorexia, diabetes, hernias and arthritis.
Closer to home, in the Netherlands and Belgium, euthanasia laws and/or practice have been extended to allow euthanasia for children and newborn babies.
It is vital that this dangerous Bill does not become law.
It’s now crucial that your local MP urgently sees that there is a large number of voters in their constituency who don’t want this dangerous and extreme change to our laws – changes that would put the vulnerable at risk and see the ending of many lives through assisted suicide.
Please enter your postcode in the box above to find out how your MP voted and ask your MP to vote NO at Third Reading.
