Chris Willmott

Retired biosciences at University of Leicester, with a special interest in bioethics teaching.

[Chris Willmott @cjrw]

Out NOW: Introductory #Bioethics text Where Science & Ethics Meet: Dilemmas at frontiers of medicine & bioscience https://t.co/8GUhHAOrFw

[Chris Willmott @cjrw]

https://t.co/NdsMfYkimi
should say: "...border control delays caused by [BREXIT] had been a "nightmare".

[Prof Katherine Sleeman @kesleeman]

No - the root cause of failure to legalise assisted dying is a Bill that is unsafe (as judged by Royal Colleges), a failure of the Bills sponsors to engage with these concerns, and a campaign driven by half-truths and spin (some of which is repeated in this Editorial).

[Chris Willmott @cjrw]

https://t.co/MSAzi6PL1P

[Richard @ricwe123]

In the village of Shama in southern Lebanon, the IDF has reduced the mausoleum of Simon Peter,an apostle of Christ, to ruins.
Two thousand years of history, wiped away in a single moment......

[Amanda Achtman @AmandaAchtman]

The first step to restoring moral sobriety in Canada is to stop the deliberate obfuscation of euthanasia records.
https://t.co/QLZAxgYowV

[Chris Willmott @cjrw]

#popmaster ELO between the two rounds? Who'd have ever expected that?

[Liz "blue tick" Carr @thelizcarr]

An alternative to the usual pro assisted suicide media bias (yes, I'm referring to tonight's @BBCPanorama), here's a link to Better Off Dead?

https://t.co/sMn5xTP0uS

My @RTS_media award winning documentary opposing assisted suicide from a secular, disability rights perspective

[Kevin Yuill @historykev]

Funds raised for palliative care can be diverted to assisting suicides if Liam McArthur's #assistedsuicide bill is passed. Utterly appalling.

The eyes of the whole world are upon you, Scotland.

[Dan Hitchens @ddhitchens]

Clearly-argued and unequivocal statement from the Royal College of Psychiatrists in Scotland.

“The Bill now poses unacceptable risks to the general public and the psychiatric workforce, meaning that we have no option but to oppose the Bill.”

[Chris Willmott @cjrw]

@NaomiOnAMission @historykev @EoLWatch 80% of the country do *not* want this bill. It's so bad that there are advocates of assisted dying who do not want this terrible bill.

[The Herald @heraldscotland]

"In 2023, Professor Leonie Herx, the globally-renowned palliative care expert, described the nihilistic and dystopian outcomes from assisted suicide legislation.

"Predictably, poor people or those experiencing short-term or long-term vulnerability were more at risk than affluent people with subjective decisions about the value of human life motivated almost entirely by cost considerations.

"In an interview with The Herald, Prof Herx pointed out that legislation in her native Canada had advanced at 'breakneck speed' beyond many of the so-called safeguards. These included the proviso that assisted death would only occur in exceptional circumstances and for physical suffering that couldn’t be controlled, even though investment in palliative care at the end of life can relieve such suffering.

"In Scotland and throughout the UK, almost every disabled rights organisation had expressed opposition to what they regarded as horrific outcomes and consequences for those with mental and physical challenges.

"Professor Herx cited the case of a physician who’d been the main organiser of euthanasia provision at a hospital in Calgary. He was now a passionate opponent of euthanasia because he’d been appalled at how it was being used to target the weak and the vulnerable." 👇

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

US immigration officials picked up a blind Rohingya refugee last week in Buffalo, NY. Then, realizing they had no basis to deport him, they released him five miles from his home. He needed a walking stick and died trying to make his way back to his house: https://t.co/dNBRWAiv0b

[Reform Party UK Exposed 🇬🇧 @reformexposed]

Nigel Farage has missed every meeting about regenerating Clacton.

https://t.co/b27KKz53Bp

[Benedict Rogers 羅傑斯 @benedictrogers]

#SaveMyanmar #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

Junta Escalates Airstrikes in Kachin State After Drone Attack on MNA Aircraft https://t.co/XOKP4cNFbS

[Chris Willmott @cjrw]

https://t.co/qHwKwXQRSM
#Bipethics #Fertility #OrganTransplant

[Kevin Yuill @historykev]

People should stop and consider why doctors tend to oppose the #assistedsuicide bill more than the public, with palliative care doctors - many of whom have seen thousands of people die - opposed to legalisation by 82%.
Let's euthanize the assisted suicide bill.

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Things we haven't forgotten:

🤔 Farage never clarified how he got his Clacton house. He said he bought it, then he suddenly said it was his GF, but noone explained where they got the £885,000 from?

🤔 Farage appointed Nathan Gill, his friend and ally, who turned out was a Russian asset.

🤔 Farage is receiving well over £1,300,000 in extra earnings. He broke the ministerial code 17 times by not reporting all of them.

🤔 Over 30 former pupils and staff at his old school confirm Nigel was a racist, antisemetic bully

🤔 Farage personally appointed Nick Candy, knowing about his Epstein connections.

🤔 Farage was flown to Davos by a foreign billionaire, then flown to Dubai by a different foreign billionaire the week after.

🤔 Farage uses a company to minimise the tax he pays on his 13 extra jobs.

Anything else?

[Dan Hitchens @ddhitchens]

Today’s Mail: the Scottish AS bill is “clinically unsafe, inequitable and unworkable,” says the Association for Palliative Medicine.

[Dan Hitchens @ddhitchens]

Seems increasingly plausible that the parameters of the AS bill are being shaped by cost/resource considerations:

—High Court scrapped
—No palliative care guarantee
—Disability protections optional
—Assessments over Zoom
—No evidence-gathering powers
—No profit cap for providers

[Medic (Claud Regnard) @Medic11358726]

The myth that the public support assisted deaths