Delighted to have my painting ‘You’re not alone’ recently acquired by Clare Hall, Cambridge Uni, included in their current exhibition ‘Infinite Variations” - A 60th Anniversary Exhibition of Art in the Life of Clare Hall - 19th March - 21st June 2026- Info
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@MDMDmydecision You have a choice and used it. What this country needs is the £12million that assisted dying would cost channeled into better palliative care, to alliviate pain with better care- NOT killing.
@suzanne_moore Are you the thought police… what gives you the authority to tell the world what ‘should’ or ‘should’ not take place …you are entitled to your own opinion, but not necessarily entitled to impose it on others. What is your reasoning behind this? I would rather see the facts.
@stellacreasy The unborn child has its own DNA and is NOT biologically part of the woman’s body- that is the truth. We all started life like that. Most abortions are for social reasons only a small fraction of a fraction are for health reasons.
@DAaronovitch@KateClanchy1@Docstockk@FT@prospect_uk Suffering is part of life. But this AD bill does not offer solutions to make life better - rather it suggests ending it . Also no safeguards can detect or stop coercion and manipulation. This bill is too flawed to be safe. This was demonstrated when under The Lords scrutiny.
@DAaronovitch@KateClanchy1@Docstockk@FT@prospect_uk Lord Falconer has consistently championed assisted dying legislation as a matter of personal autonomy and choice for terminally ill patients, fundamentally arguing that it provides dignity rather than solely alleviating suffering. History shows we cannot predict the future.
@DAaronovitch@KateClanchy1@Docstockk@FT@prospect_uk This bill claims to be about ‘choice’, not suffering - better palliative care would relieve that. Once this AD bill is passed, it would open the slippery slope to euthanasia, and the effect on the marginalised is documented in this report, not in my mind: https://t.co/BuQAREvfNH
@KateClanchy1@DAaronovitch@Docstockk@FT@prospect_uk This AD bill is so flawed that none of the Royal Colleges support it. If anyone truly wishes to end their life, they are free to go to Switzerland and leave the vulnerable and poor protected from the abuse this bill would expose them to. Just as MAiD Track 2 has done in Canada.
@DAaronovitch@Docstockk@FT@KateClanchy1@prospect_uk In the H of Commons LF actually said the cost would save NHS money and this would mitigate the cost of Assisted dying. If it was about pain then palliative care should be fully funded. Its impossible to legislate for coersion. All the Royal colleges recognise its a flawed bill.
@DAaronovitch@Docstockk@FT@KateClanchy1@prospect_uk Lord Falconer points to the official Department of Health & Social Care Impact Assessment, highlighting that the projected costs of running an assisted dying service (approx£25 million per year) are relatively small compared to the broader £188 billion NHS budget.
@DAaronovitch@Docstockk@FT@KateClanchy1@prospect_uk If the AD bill was about relieving pain, then why the six-month prognosis (unreliable in 50% of cases)? Why not six weeks (very reliable)? That way, we reduce risk of coercion, both from without & within, so as not to be a burden, or to save family and NHS money on expensive care
@TonyMarra_1@sophieRblake This Assisted Suicide Bill is not about relieving pain but about ‘choice’. However, without a funded funded palliative care system, there can be no genuine ‘choice’. This flawed bill will negatively affect the poor and vulnerable. Read this grim report
https://t.co/BuQAREvfNH
@sarah_donaldson Hasn’t Blair got money in the game- ie investments that will profit by the use of AI ? His is a Conflict of interests in that case. Where as the pope has a disinterested interest in protecting humanity