The assisted suicide bill has been voted down by MPs by 270 votes to 286 in a major blow to supporters of changing the law. The Telegraph has more.
The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill was opposed by 270 votes to 286 in the Commons on Friday afternoon, following a five-hour debate.
MPs had voted in favour of the assisted dying bill last year when it was introduced by Kim Leadbeater, only for the legislation to run out of time in the Lords.
On Friday, Lauren Edwards, a backbench Labour MP, introduced a near-identical bill, in the hope of allowing adults in England and Wales with less than six months to live to seek medical assistance to end their lives.
But now it has been rejected by MPs, supporters of assisted dying could find themselves waiting years for another chance to change the law.
Two former Labour health ministers used the Commons debate to urge their colleagues to vote down the proposals.
Ashley Dalton, who is terminally ill, accused supporters of the bill of “scaremongering”, while Dr Zubir Ahmed warned that the NHS was not ready for the introduction of assisted dying.
During the debate, proponents of the bill including Liz Kendall and Hilary Benn, two former Cabinet ministers, argued that it was needed to relieve human suffering for the terminally ill.
Dodged a bullet there – or, rather, a syringe.
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In principle, I am in favour of assisted dying. If someone chooses to end their life early due to a terminal condition, and if it would relieve terrible suffering, I understand why such a person would ask for help to end their suffering.
However, when you see what happens in Canada, I realise that doctors, health professionals and even family cannot always be trusted to act in good faith. What happens in Canada is inhuman, brutal and shocking.
https://nypost.com/2022/08/11/disturbing-experts-troubled-by-canadas-euthanasia-laws/
There are many other examples you can find of people being euthanised for utterly inappropriate reasons. It genuinely scares me what is happening in Canada.
So the jabs don’t work quickly enough?
People who say this would cause issues for the NHS are looking in the wrong direction. There will be a whole industry in the wings with disgusting TV adverts ready to go, like with weight loss etc. We will see a wave of private sector termination clinics operating allowing people with ingrowing toenails to end it all. It must never happen.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y54n99l48o
BBC currently wailing and gnashing their teeth over why people would vote against the bill.
Wow, no attempt at impartiality there. And yet I’m sure the writer genuinely believes that chucking in the occasional mention of people who disagree is what balanced journalism looks like.
Rare bit of good news from parliament.
That’s Labour’s welfare benefits cuts out the window.
If this had become law, given the speed at which the vaccine mandates and Covid tyranny took hold, it would only be a handful of incremental steps before ‘dangerous’ and ‘fascist’ Daily Sceptic readers were labelled mentally ill and scheduled for assisted dying.
The Telegraph article phrases it better: “opposed by 286 votes to 270”
Glad that nonsense is gone for now. There must have been several labour MPs who voted against it.
Spot the market for certain opportunists, who might charge a fair bit. After all, it will take a while for the HoC to try again,
Check the sums in the headline. You can’t vote down with a smaller number, even in the Commons. I think 286 of them where against it today.
Good.
“… by 270 votes to 286…”
Don’t you mean voted down by 286 to 270?
Isn’t 286 bigger than 270?
Yes, it’s traditional to report the Ayes first then the Noes.
Thank God for that.
Yes! Praise the Lord!
And I, a Catholic will join you in that thanksgiving prayer.
Thanks for being on our side.
I am not a Catholic although my better half is (if lapsed) but there are two things I totally agree with them on, one is abortion which is utterly abhorrent and the other assisted dying. So well done to those 286 MPs and I can tell you it’s rarely if ever I praise MPs!
I didn’t understand the indecent haste of trying to push a private members bill through the HoC by people with professionally printed placards and deep pockets for advertising. The motivation, and the people supporting the bill, should give you deep concern that it is not what it claims to be. Glad to see this effort fall in the dust. Can we leave it there now.?
I’m sure the government will try another route after a suitable interval. Its important to their satanist agenda
Undoubtedly.
You are right. Demonic powers won’t give up. But we’ll fight on.
Don’t forget the Socialist welfare-state is cradle to the grave. The shorter the interval between the two, there’s less spending of tax plunder on the living and more to line the pockets of the Comrades in charge and their acolytes and cronies at home and abroad.
Nope, it will return more often than a cold sore
Yes. From the BBC’s report “Already those in favour of a change in the law promise to try again. Kim Leadbeater, the Labour MP who introduced the original legislation last year, has told the BBC another attempt could come as soon as next year.
Supporters have told me they see this parliament, with such a large proportion of Labour MPs who tend to support assisted dying, as a “unique moment” to pass this change.”
Fabians have always supported euthanasia, which is what so-called “assisted suicide” really is.