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Fiona Robertson fionaswriting.bsky.social

@FionasWriting

Disability Justice, feminist, equalities consultant, writer, performance poet. Here for physics, poetry and politics. See link for other contacts She/her 🦕

Aberdeen, Scotland Katılım Eylül 2018
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@mssinenomine Very briefly back here just to say thank you for all your support on this. I was so steeled for it to pass that the relief has floored me. I can't quite believe it. I know they'll try again soon, but we can breathe for a little while. I miss you x
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Alex MacLeod 🌻@AlexMacLeod9·
@FionasWriting My mither. If everything wasn't spotless at bells we could expect a full year of dirt till next Hogmanay. Also we all had to have a coin in our pocket to ensure we had one for the rest of the year. And at midnight open front and back doors to see out the old and let in the new.
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Solidarity this Hogmanay to the women raised in Scotland with chronic illnesses whose brains are currently screaming that the house HAS TO BE SPARKLING CLEAN BY THE BELLS OR TERRIBLE THINGS WILL HAPPEN and who've agreed with themselves putting out the recycling counts the same.
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Disability Rights UK
Disability Rights UK@DisRightsUK·
At a time when social care is chronically underfunded, and many Disabled people are unable to afford essentials, this legislation sends a chilling message: the government prioritises the right to die over the right to live. Full statement: disabilityrightsuk.org/news/dr-uks-st…
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DPAC@Dis_PPL_Protest·
Money Talks Money Kills Disabled People Suffer Assisted Dying Bill Assisted Suicide Bill Your legacy of death by coercion of Disabled people continues
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Philip Murray
Philip Murray@philipmurraylaw·
If this debate has confirmed anything, it's that the Bill's main proponents, and especially those who co-signed it, totally fail to understand what they're asking Parliament to legislate for.
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Touretteshero
Touretteshero@touretteshero·
Devastated about what this means for our lives & communities. Sending love & solidarity to all the sick & disabled people who’ve shared their insight, experiences & fears! But particularly holding @thelizcarr @TheNotDeadYetUK & @Dis_PPL_Protest in my heart. #AssistUsToLive
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I'm also never going to understand why this ridiculous country just allows people to lie in Parliament. The author of the Bill repeatedly lied during this debate, giving the impression that safeguards have worked fine everywhere else, that access has never been expanded.
Fiona Robertson fionaswriting.bsky.social@FionasWriting

God, imagine a world where disabled people didn't have to spend all our (often limited) energy fighting for treatment, for care, for access, for our lives. The fight goes on.

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Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽
I am so sorry, first and foremost for the people of Britain. But selfishly also for those of us in Canada hoping you saw us and said 'hell no.' To bring in assisted suicide *after* watching what's happening here...leaves no doubt about how little value is placed on our lives.
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Madeline Grant
Madeline Grant@Madz_Grant·
Kim Leadbeater keeps getting key aspects of her bill wrong. Is it ignorance or malice? There have been so many that I’m not sure plausible deniability can be argued here
Dan Hitchens@ddhitchens

A very important untruth from @kimleadbeater, who says: “Not one jurisdiction which passed laws on the basis of terminal illness has expanded its scope.” BBC report on Canada: “Legislation introduced...in 2016 was initially just for the terminally ill.” bbc.co.uk/news/articles/….

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Tom Bennett OBE
Tom Bennett OBE@tombennett71·
Those adverts on the tube selling suicide as amazing and joyful are excruciating. I can’t believe they were allowed in an environment where desperate people often take their lives. And they’re still up. When I consider the adverts they did ban (but not these) I conclude the people who regulate such things are unfit for the job, and have created an environment where self harm is more likely.
Georgia Leigha Gilholy@llggeorgia

Passing through Westminster station this morning, I was pleased to see Samaritans posters had once again been pasted over the disturbing & insensitive Assisted Suicide propaganda!

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Yuan Yi Zhu
Yuan Yi Zhu@yuanyi_z·
@RobertJenrick @FloEshalomi This is a very moving speech by Florence Eshalomi @FloEshalomi. Speaks of her mother who had a disease who was going to kill her eventually, but who wanted to live. True freedom only exists if you have a choice in life.
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Yuan Yi Zhu
Yuan Yi Zhu@yuanyi_z·
@Jess4Lowestoft Sian Berry @sianberry supports the bill - she says that the bill should be expanded at the next stage. Do you remember Kim Leadbeater saying her bill can never be expanded? The bill hasn't had its second reading yet and we are already on the bloody slippery slope!
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Yuan Yi Zhu@yuanyi_z·
@Jess4Lowestoft Jess Asato @Jess4Lowestoft: every week we hear of judges not correctly identifying coercive control. Where is the gender analysis in this? 100% of anorexia assisted suicides in the world were for women. I am voting against.
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