I’ll be voting against the Assisted Dying Bill on Friday. While I support personal autonomy, we must tread with care. This bill doesn’t consider people with conditions like MND or Locked-in syndrome and I believe we must do more to assist people live, not just to die.

Then why did you vote to allow abortion up to birth?

You can’t “assist” terminally ill adults to live as they are actively dying, but you can let them choose to have a kind death. That’s the entire point of this Bill. By not supporting it you are condemning thousands of terminally ill adults to continue to suffer as they die. What about their rights? It seems that you and other opponents have forgotten who this Bill is actually for and why it’s needed. Not the hypotheticals and whataboutorys. People like myself who have terminal cancer and want choice at the end of life if needed. We have no know idea what’s currently happening behind closed doors without the regulation this bill introduces. There are no safeguards in place for coercion, or for the 650 TIA who take matters into their own hands every year, often in dangerous and horrific ways. There is a huge amount of evidence that shows the current status quo harms dying people and their families. You are offering them absolutely nothing as an alternative, and it is well acknowledged that palliative care does not work for everyone. It’s cruel and inhumane to allow this to continue.

We may disagree on many things, but on this I am thankful for you stance and I hope you can persuade other MP's to vote against the Bill too

it takes a lot for me to agree with labour or dawn butler in any way , im bi polar and have several suicide attempts in my past, looking around where this legalisation has happened has seen way to many deaths of people who dont need to die i would have been one of them

If I am terminally I'll I want the CHOICE to pass peacefully rather than months of agony. I want the right to choose. Now a baby with no voice. Yeah let's allow them to be murdered.

Thank you!

The people with MND who I spent time campaigning with last Friday would disagree. I’m receiving excellent palliative care and am being ably assisted to live. All we ask is that the process of death (once there is no doubt there is no light at the end of the tunnel) is kinder.

B b but, didn't your party vote for infanticide? What's the difference - they are all vulnerable.

Thank you !

By voting no you will be consigning thousands upon thousands of people to an agonizing, undignified death.