Amendments attacking life at both ends tabled to Healthcare Bill - still time to write to Peers
Dear Supporter,
Thank you to everyone who has written to Lords about the amendments on DIY abortion and assisted suicide tabled to the Health and Care Bill.
If you haven’t, there is still time – instead of being debated yesterday (9 March) the two amendments will now be debated on Wednesday next week (16 March).
A reminder of what is happening. The Health and Care Bill, which is going through its report stage in the House of Lords, is being hijacked to attack life at both ends.
- Conservative Peer Baroness Sugg, co-sponsored by Lib Dem Baroness Barker and Labour Peer Baroness Thornton has tabled amendment 183 to permit home abortion.
- Conservative Peer Lord Forsyth has retabled his amendment that would require ministers to bring forward “Assisted Dying” legislation within a year of the Act coming into force. This is amendment 170.
Please write a physical letter if you can (emails are often ignored) asking Peers to oppose both of these amendments.
You can use this tool to find Lords to write to writetothem.com/lords. You can choose several Peers to write to.
Some points to make in your letter (which need only be brief) are:
- A Government Bill should not be hijacked for unrelated purposes
- The Government has already decided to scrap the DIY abortion scheme, following a public consultation. Reversing this decision through an amendment in the Lords lacks democratic accountability
- The Forsyth amendment is constitutionally improper – it is the Government that initiates legislation not the legislature.
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Please write to Peers now to stop this bill being hijacked by anti-life forces.
Kind regards,
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John Deighan
Chief Executive
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