Peer fears new law would open the door to vulnerable being 'pushed' into seeing death as their 'best' option
Peer fears new law would open the door to vulnerable being 'pushed' into seeing death as their 'best' optioninterview to speak out on the day a private members’ bill that would give terminally ill people in England and Wales with six months to live the right to end their life.
The topic evokes strong reactions on both sides with Dame Esther Rantzen, calling the current law “cruel” and Ms Leadbeater labelling it “unjust.”She added that “years ago, I would have been in favour of the law change” but “the more I research and read worries me”.Kim Leadbeater presents the Terminally Ill Adults Bill to Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle
She is particularly concerned because missteps in a bill concerning death will have irreversible consequences. “There is no going back,” the peer cautioned. “There is no safety net”. “If people feel like they are only surviving, people will be pushed, coerced. They’ll even say it’s a settled wish because their life is so awful.”Assisted dying was last debated in the Commons in 2015, but since then the political make-up of Parliament has changed dramatically.
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