Right to Life: Share your Story
The campaign to legalise assisted suicide in the UK is gathering pace. Baroness Meacher’s assisted suicide Bill will likely have its Second Reading in the House of Lords on 22 October, and the pro-assisted suicide lobby have bThis has included many members of the public writing to peers with personal stories that make a strong case for introducing assisted suicide.een increasing pressure on peers to support this controversial and morally questionable bill.
At this time our Peers need to know that any assisted suicide law would be fundamentally unsafe and that now is the time to invest in better palliative and end-of-life care instead.
Right to Life have set up a tool on their website to collect personal testimonies from members of the public. They aim to work with individuals to email peers with their stories. In this way, peers will receive a number of personal messages from members of the public who are able to make a compelling case based around their own personal story. The aim is to win support for voting against the Meacher Assisted Suicide Bill.
Supporter Action
If you have a personal testimony that you would be willing to share, or would like to read the real-life stories of others if you are considering putting your story forward, visit .www.righttolife.org.uk/mystory Your personal account, no matter how big or small it might seem, could be critical to the fight against assisted suicide in the Lords. Positive experiences of end-of-life care and negative experiences around assisted suicide will be very helpful in shaping the views of peers on this bill and convincing them to reject this extreme and dangerous proposal.
