Chris Willmott

Out NOW: Introductory #Bioethics text Where Science & Ethics Meet: Dilemmas at frontiers of medicine & bioscience lefthandedbiochemist.wordpress.com/2016/06/30/whe…

#popmaster ELO between the two rounds? Who'd have ever expected that?

An alternative to the usual pro assisted suicide media bias (yes, I'm referring to tonight's @BBCPanorama), here's a link to Better Off Dead? bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00… My @RTS_media award winning documentary opposing assisted suicide from a secular, disability rights perspective

Funds raised for palliative care can be diverted to assisting suicides if Liam McArthur's #assistedsuicide bill is passed. Utterly appalling. The eyes of the whole world are upon you, Scotland.

Clearly-argued and unequivocal statement from the Royal College of Psychiatrists in Scotland. “The Bill now poses unacceptable risks to the general public and the psychiatric workforce, meaning that we have no option but to oppose the Bill.”

@NaomiOnAMission @historykev @EoLWatch 80% of the country do *not* want this bill. It's so bad that there are advocates of assisted dying who do not want this terrible bill.

@historykev @EoLWatch 80% of the country want the bill Who are you to prevent the will of the people? What do you have against dying people trying to have autonomy in their last days? I wish for you what you condemn others to.

Another celebrity pretends she expresses the 'will of the people' and stamps her feet with deep outrage because the Peers dare scrutinize what is a very flawed bill. #assistedsuicide

"In 2023, Professor Leonie Herx, the globally-renowned palliative care expert, described the nihilistic and dystopian outcomes from assisted suicide legislation. "Predictably, poor people or those experiencing short-term or long-term vulnerability were more at risk than affluent people with subjective decisions about the value of human life motivated almost entirely by cost considerations. "In an interview with The Herald, Prof Herx pointed out that legislation in her native Canada had advanced at 'breakneck speed' beyond many of the so-called safeguards. These included the proviso that assisted death would only occur in exceptional circumstances and for physical suffering that couldn’t be controlled, even though investment in palliative care at the end of life can relieve such suffering. "In Scotland and throughout the UK, almost every disabled rights organisation had expressed opposition to what they regarded as horrific outcomes and consequences for those with mental and physical challenges. "Professor Herx cited the case of a physician who’d been the main organiser of euthanasia provision at a hospital in Calgary. He was now a passionate opponent of euthanasia because he’d been appalled at how it was being used to target the weak and the vulnerable." 👇

US immigration officials picked up a blind Rohingya refugee last week in Buffalo, NY. Then, realizing they had no basis to deport him, they released him five miles from his home. He needed a walking stick and died trying to make his way back to his house: investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/bli…

Nigel Farage has missed every meeting about regenerating Clacton. clactonandfrintongazette.co.uk/news/25879821.…

#SaveMyanmar #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar Junta Escalates Airstrikes in Kachin State After Drone Attack on MNA Aircraft irrawaddy.com/news/war-again…

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… #Bipethics #Fertility #OrganTransplant

People should stop and consider why doctors tend to oppose the #assistedsuicide bill more than the public, with palliative care doctors - many of whom have seen thousands of people die - opposed to legalisation by 82%. Let's euthanize the assisted suicide bill.

Things we haven't forgotten: 🤔 Farage never clarified how he got his Clacton house. He said he bought it, then he suddenly said it was his GF, but noone explained where they got the £885,000 from? 🤔 Farage appointed Nathan Gill, his friend and ally, who turned out was a Russian asset. 🤔 Farage is receiving well over £1,300,000 in extra earnings. He broke the ministerial code 17 times by not reporting all of them. 🤔 Over 30 former pupils and staff at his old school confirm Nigel was a racist, antisemetic bully 🤔 Farage personally appointed Nick Candy, knowing about his Epstein connections. 🤔 Farage was flown to Davos by a foreign billionaire, then flown to Dubai by a different foreign billionaire the week after. 🤔 Farage uses a company to minimise the tax he pays on his 13 extra jobs. Anything else?

Today’s Mail: the Scottish AS bill is “clinically unsafe, inequitable and unworkable,” says the Association for Palliative Medicine.

Seems increasingly plausible that the parameters of the AS bill are being shaped by cost/resource considerations: —High Court scrapped —No palliative care guarantee —Disability protections optional —Assessments over Zoom —No evidence-gathering powers —No profit cap for providers

The myth that the public support assisted deaths

Esther Rantzen dismisses disability rights campaigners, they tried to silence them in the Commons, now Lord Falconer’s diluting the few safeguards inserted and says it’s “drafting changes” or “improvements”

Widespread concerns about the #AssistedDyingBill continue to be ignored. @LordCFalconer’s latest amendments further weaken protections: advocates could be waived or need not be present, leaving vulnerable people at risk. Safeguards must keep people safe #NotCollateralDamage

Before we started yesterday's debate on Assisted Dying, there was a bit of a row about how sponsors of the Bill have taken to the airwaves to threaten the use of the Parliament Act to accuse those of us who refuse to simply nod this Bill through of bad faith - or indeed hidden religious faith. Using media platforms to peddle lazy caricatures is a form of extra-parliamentary bullying...

In my speech at the protest against #China's proposed new mega embassy, I said it should not be approved while Jimmy Lai remains in jail, and I called on @Keir_Starmer to make his visit to China conditional on #FreeJimmyLai I also called on @TowerHamletsNow to come good on its motion to rename the streets around the site as #HongKong Road, #Uyghur Avenue, #Tibet Street, #Taiwan Square - and to name the major intersection around the @TowerOfLondon as #JimmyLai Junction. You can listen in full here 👇

Acting head of the CDC, told the Washington Examiner ..he was disturbed to learn that Canada’s physician-assisted suicide program, has enabled it to become a world leader in organ transplant policy from deceased donors. washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthc…