Despite many weeks of refusing to make her assisted suicide Bill public, Kim Leadbeater has finally published her assisted suicide Bill after receiving a lot of public pressure to do so.
This is with barely two and a half weeks before the Bill goes to a vote at Second Reading!
When MPs last voted on the issue, MPs and the public were given almost two months to scrutinise the Bill before it was voted on (and earlier this year, Lord Falconer’s assisted suicide Bill in the Lords was published almost four months before its Second Reading).
It is outrageous that MPs and the wider public are only seeing this Bill barely two and a half weeks before it goes to a vote. What is being proposed is a monumental change to our laws, and it’s totally unjustifiable and fundamentally undemocratic to try and rush it through without proper public scrutiny.
We know from experience that the more time MPs have to consider the issue, the more likely they are to realise the dangers of assisted suicide, so this may have been a deliberate tactic by our opposition.
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We need to make it clear right now to MPs why publishing this Bill so late is totally unacceptable – and reiterate that they must oppose the Bill.
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