The assisted dying bill leaves sick and disabled people at risk of coercion by family, medical staff and society at large Me for the @FT @ftopinion www.ft.com/content/d658... - ThreadSky

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lucywebster.bsky.social • 92 days ago

The assisted dying bill leaves sick and disabled people at risk of coercion by family, medical staff and society at large

Me for the @FT @ftopinion
https://www.ft.com/content/d658c24d-c7bb-4864-8439-d584d9391801

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agvbergin.net•92 days ago

Thanks for writing this important piece. Gift link good for three views: https://on.ft.com/3D0HUtK.

docchair.bsky.social•92 days ago

This article is excellent and wonderfully written

lucywebster.bsky.social•92 days ago

"The main issue with the legislation is that it makes it a crime to coerce someone into assisted dying, yet does not define what that coercion could look like. This is a huge oversight. As I told Leadbeater, sick and disabled people are one of the most at-risk groups abuse"

lucywebster.bsky.social•92 days ago

"That’s before you consider the coercive effects of society at large — constant discrimination, including strangers telling you that in your position they would kill themselves — and the acute care crisis which is the background to this bill"

lucywebster.bsky.social•92 days ago

"Are you making a free choice to die if it is underpinned by the state’s failure to provide you with adequate pain relief? What about if it is based on your feelings of guilt that your children have been left to care for you, with the wait for social care longer than your life expectancy?"

lucywebster.bsky.social•92 days ago

"When we met, I pleaded with Leadbeater to recognise the risk doctors can pose. Yet the bill makes this risk even worse than expected by giving doctors the explicit right to mention assisted dying - even to patients who haven’t asked about it... This is simply unconscionable."

wisgi.bsky.social•92 days ago

Thank you

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