This afternoon, Lauren Edwards MP published her assisted suicide Bill.
That is why we need you to email your MP today using our updated Support Not Suicide campaign email tool. The email that your MP receives includes important new information that MPs need to see today.
If you would like to read more about what has happened today, please keep reading. But if you do not have time, please scroll down now and click the button to contact your MP. It takes just 30 seconds.
Assisted suicide pressure group Dignity in Dying is carrying out a major push this week to get their supporters to email MPs. We cannot allow those emails to be the only ones MPs receive this week. Your MP urgently needs to hear from you too.
WHAT HAS HAPPENED TODAY?
The Bill published today by Lauren Edwards is near-identical to Kim Leadbeater’s deeply flawed and unsafe Bill from the previous parliamentary session.
It retains dozens of serious flaws identified by Royal Colleges, professional bodies, the Equality and Human Rights Commission, and disability, mental health and domestic abuse charities.
The Bill was published on the day MPs left Westminster for the summer recess, leaving them very little parliamentary time to examine it before its Second Reading on Friday 11 September.
By bringing back the Bill in near-identical form, its supporters are also keeping open the highly controversial possibility of using the Parliament Acts to force it into law if the House of Lords does not pass it again.
This makes the vote on 11 September even more important.
TAKE ACTION
We have just updated our Support Not Suicide campaign email tool. The campaign page will look familiar, but the email your MP receives now explains what has been published today, why the proposed use of the Parliament Acts is so concerning and why MPs must vote NO at Second Reading on 11 September.
Even if you have contacted your MP before, please write to them again using this updated tool. This is new information that your MP needs to see.
Please click the button below to contact your MP now.
Every email helps demonstrate that there is serious and growing opposition to bringing back the same unsafe Bill and attempting to force it into law.
Thank you so much for everything you are doing.