Dear SPUC supporter,
Many thanks to all of you who have already responded to the Health Select Committee Inquiry on assisted suicide.
It is vital that as many people as possible respond to this consultation. While a Select Committee inquiry cannot change the law, advocates of assisted suicide will be using this consultation to push for legislation. We must send a strong message to MPs that assisted suicide is a dangerous and unethical practice that must never be legalised in any part of the UK.
If you haven’t yet responded, please take ten minutes now to do so. You are asked to respond to a very straightforward, six-question survey concerning the law as it stands and how the debate on assisted suicide should proceed.
What is this inquiry?
The Health and Social Care Select Committee in Westminster has launched a consultation on assisted suicide.
The Select Committee, a cross-party body of MPs which exists to scrutinise Government health policy, issued a call for evidence in December. The Select Committee will prepare a report and recommendations for Government based on responses received in this inquiry.
What is the deadline?
You can submit evidence until Friday 20 January 2023. Please complete the questionnaire as soon as you can and encourage others to do the same.
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What guidance is there?
To help you with this, we have prepared a guide to responding to this consultation. We have also enclosed our new general briefing on the subject: The Case Against Assisted Suicide: Questions People Ask.
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As I said, the consultation consists of a straightforward, six question survey – it can be done in ten or fifteen minutes. Please take the time to complete it and help us fight to protect the vulnerable against the horror of assisted suicide.
Best wishes,
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Alithea Williams
Public Policy Manager
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