Our message to MPs

Why You Must Vote Down the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

 

This Bill is unsafe. Scrutiny has only exposed its dangers, not fixed them.

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Safeguards have been removed, not strengthened. The promised High Court safeguard has been scrapped.

Eligibility is already expanding. MPs have proposed extending prognosis from 6 to 12 months for neurodegenerative conditions - just like in Australia, where eligibility kept widening.

This will not stop here. Every country that legalised assisted suicide has expanded criteria. The UK is already following the same path.

 

Scrutiny Has Proven Disabled People’s Fears Right

• At Second Reading, MPs were promised a High Court Judge’s oversight. That has now been removed in favour of a weaker Review Panel.
• Every attempt to strengthen protections has been rejected. MPs voted down safeguards against coercion, mental health risks, and flawed prognosis times.
• If these safeguards were removed during scrutiny, how can anyone trust they will remain in law?

 

This Bill Does Not Create Choice—It Creates Expectation
 

• Disabled people already struggle to access care and support.
• If assisted suicide is legal, people will feel pressure to justify continuing to live.
• We cannot create a society where it is easier to die than to access care.

 

Assisted Suicide Laws Always Expand—This One Already Has
 

If eligibility is already widening now, what will stop it from expanding further?

 

Key Safeguards MPs Have Already Rejected

 

Stronger mental capacity & decision-making thresholds.

Exemptions for prisoners & homeless people
Banning undue influence, manipulation & encouragement
Preventing choices based on feeling like a burden
Requiring palliative care consultation first
Blocking eating disorders as a qualifying illness
Explicitly excluding disabilities & mental illnesses

 

This should be a red flag.  Scrutiny has weakened this Bill, not strengthened it.

 

MPs: Your Vote Will Shape the Future.

• Do we invest in care, support, and palliative services?
• Or do we allow assisted suicide laws to follow the same dangerous path we’ve seen abroad? This is about protecting disabled and terminally ill people from harm.

 

Turn up. Vote. Reject this Bill.