US EditionPeers expected to agree extra scrutiny as assisted dying debate returns to Lords
The Bill faces criticism for lacking adequate safeguards and granting broad powers to ministers, with a select committee set to scrutinize its impact before further progress is made.
- On Friday, the Terminally Ill Adults Bill returns to the House of Lords with support collapsing as some proponents abandon it.
- A House of Lords committee found the Bill relies on 'skeleton' provisions, warning it grants Government ministers power to create offences and penalties via negative procedure, limiting scrutiny.
- Next month, Baroness Berger and Lord Falconer agreed to a fast-tracked select committee of about a dozen peers to gather evidence and report to the Lords by November 7.
- The government changed parliamentary recess dates to accommodate an extra day for Kim Leadbeater's Bill, as backers fear opponents may 'talk it out' and Friday afternoon could bring a motion to agree Second Reading.
- Between Commons readings the majority in favour narrowed sharply from 55 to 23, and if enacted ministers have four years to establish assisted dying services, pushing first cases to 2029/30.
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As President Trump travels to the United Kingdom and looks forward to an official welcome of unprecedented scope, the British nation continues to debate the portentous topic of assisted suicide. The debate has been long and arduous, befitting a topic that threatens to undo the safeguards of Hippocratic medicine for the most vulnerable Britons — the aged, the infirm, the despairing, and the disabled. A process that began in the House of Commons i…
UK Lord Brooke promotes assisted suicide bill to limit population & climate change: ‘Just think what the 2025 (population) numbers would be if abortion had not been legalized’ & ‘The growth of homosexuality has reduced the number of children we would have
Labour peer Lord Brooke has offered his pearls of wisdom on the Assisted Dying Bill debate today: “…That’s a minor change compared with this century’s growth in the world population from 6.1 billion to 8.2 billion. A 25% increase in 25 years. But just think what the 2025 numbers would be if abortion had not been legalized. Or there had not been widespread usage and advocacy of contraception. And indeed the growth of homosexuality throughout so…
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