Letter: Parliament must now drop assisted suicide bill as peers have rightly determined that it would not be safe or workable
A letter from Alisdair Hungerford-Morgan:
The assisted suicide bill has now been widely pronounced as dead by commentators after it was revealed that it will "almost certainly" run out of time in the House of Lords and will not become law.
Despite spin from the pro-assisted suicide lobby, the bill is not failing because of a determined filibuster by a select few.
Rather, it is failing because it is a badly drafted piece of legislation and, after appropriate and necessary scrutiny, peers have rightly determined that the bill would not be safe or workable.
Using the Parliament Acts to bypass House of Lords scrutiny of a private members’ bill would be unprecedented and wholly inappropriate.
Any talk of using the Parliament Acts to force this bill into law must now be put to rest.
Parliament now has the opportunity to drop this divisive and flawed bill for good.
Alisdair Hungerford-Morgan, Right To Life UK CEO