I know the technicalities of this stuff is probably the least exciting to campaigners and bioethicists, but the logistics of planned court orders in this Bill is quite something.
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Rather intriguing to see a hard-right Tory MP citing the CRPD and asking why there isn't better representation of DDPOs at the Public Bill Committee. It's a fair point, but I'd like to see them raise it in other contexts too!
They did have evidence from Tom Shakespeare and Miro Griffiths though, so not completely without representation of different perspectives from disability community
I respectfully disagree with Tom Shakespeare though - I do think that if a person with anorexia is effectively dying through lack of nutrition, then that could be categorised as terminal illness, and it is not 'only' because of mental disorder but the other physical disorders linked to that.
I also wonder what happens in cases like the 'Sparkles' case in the Court of Protection where someone has made a failed suicide attempt and is refusing life-saving interventions (e.g. dialysis) - would that constitute terminal illness for the purposes of the Bill?
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