Becky Protopsaltis

🚨Doctor assisted suicide for England & Wales🚨 13 key issues to be decided on Friday 13th Only Kim’s amendments are guaranteed a decision — but all of these should be put to a vote. MPs must engage with the detail of what is in THIS Bill and what precisely they are saying yes to. 🚨1⃣NC1: Are MPs content for any doctor to initiate a discussion about ending a patient’s life, regardless of how vulnerable the patient may be? 🚨2⃣NC2: Are MPs content that any doctor can raise ending a patient's life with someone terminally ill under the age of 18? 🚨3⃣NC16: Are MPs content that the bill allows assisted dying *because* someone is depressed, feels like a burden, lacks support, or is in financial distress? 🚨4⃣Amdt 12: Are MPs content to allow ministers of any government to change any aspect of the NHS — including its founding principles — with little further say? 🚨5⃣Amdt 15: Are MPs content that private, for-profit providers could run this service — with no profit cap, no transparency obligations, and little oversight? 🚨6⃣NC9: Are MPs comfortable that the panel and assisting doctor need only be 51% sure — a simple majority — that the patient is not being coerced and meets the criteria? 🚨7⃣NC14b: Are MPs content to allow a minister to lift the advertising ban at will, without parliamentary scrutiny? 🚨8⃣24, 45: Are MPs comfortable with assuming capacity for life-ending decisions — with no requirement for formal assessment? Are MPs content that assessments are with a single doctor who doesn’t need to be an expert in that patient’s condition, nor know the patient, nor involve others? 🚨9⃣103, 104: Are MPs content to hand over all further decisions about what this service will look like, and what their constituents will experience, with so many unknowns? 🚨🔟NC17: Are MPs comfortable that hospices and care homes could be compelled to participate in assisted dying, leaving many constituents without access to a genuinely safe space? 🚨1⃣1⃣99 + 100, 27: Do MPs really believe there’s no duty of care to those promised a ‘dignified death’ and no obligation to ensure drug safety standards, protect against distressing or prolonged death, and no need for patient clarity about possible complications? 🚨1⃣2⃣NC15a: Are MPs prepared to exclude coroners, despite concerns raised by the Royal College of Pathologists and a former Chief Coroner 🚨1⃣3⃣NC19: Do MPs want to identify systemic failures and ensure — from Day 1 — that we collect the data and insight needed to understand how assisted dying is used and who it affects?