A year ago in February, I had a post on the unseemly haste with which a member of Parliament (MP) in England was trying to ram through an assisted suicide bill, and was living in a state of denial as she did so.
You see, MP Kim Leadbeater assured her fellow legislators that it's simply not true that in places where the state has now allowed one to end one's life, the, um, guardrails have slipped, nor have the criteria for qualifying broadened.
It's all stayed neat, tidy, and terminal.
...Kim Leadbeater is the MP leading the charge for 'reforming the archaic' assisted suicide laws in Parliament. She started ramping up her arguments to revamp and expand the existing statutes in October last year when she announced she'd be introducing what's known as a 'private members bill.'
Allowing terminally ill people to end their lives would not lead to a "slippery slope" of widening eligibility criteria, an MP pushing for the law has insisted.
Kim Leadbeater told Sky News there is a misconception that in countries where assisted dying has been introduced, the scope has been broadened over time.
The MP for Spen Valley is today introducing a private members bill on the matter, saying the current law is "not fit for purpose".
The proposal would allow terminally ill, mentally competent people to end their own life.
Asked about the "slippery slope" argument, Ms Leadbeater said: "Wherever a law has been introduced in other countries and it's got strict limited criteria with proper safeguards and protections, it hasn't been widened. So there is a perception that's the case but it isn't the case.
It's probably just as lucky that Ms. Leadbeater hadn't been to, say, Canada in the interim year and twisted an ankle or something, or she might have found out that her sunny assurances of only strictly by-the-rules blissful release weren't at all what the truth of who wound up at the end of a needle in the arm meant.
Sometimes someone can change their mind, but everyone is already tired of them and wants them gone...so they lose.
A Canadian woman has died by euthanasia despite informing doctors just hours beforehand of her wish to stay alive and receive palliative care, sparking concerns about the dangers of coercion or undue influence under assisted suicide and euthanasia laws.
An official report by the Chief Coroner of Ontario’s Medical Assistance in Dying Death Review Committee (MDRC) highlighted significant concerns that resulted in the death of Mrs B, a woman in her 80s who suffered from complications following coronary artery bypass graft surgery and who chose to receive palliative care support at home.
After sharing her desire with her family to end her life through Canada’s euthanasia and assisted suicide programme, her spouse requested an assessment. However, Mrs B informed the euthanasia and assisted suicide assessor she “wanted to withdraw her request, citing personal and religious values and beliefs”, preferring instead to pursue “in-patient palliative care/hospice care”.
After being denied hospice palliative care, Mrs B’s spouse subsequently requested another euthanasia and assisted suicide assessment, which deemed Mrs B eligible for the euthanasia and assisted suicide programme. This approval was granted despite reservations from the first practitioner, who held “concerns regarding the necessity for ‘urgency’ and… the seemingly drastic change in perspective of end-of-life goals, and the possibility of coercion or undue influence (i.e. due to caregiver burnout)”.
Sometimes it's just the odd ache or pain that gives providers an opportunity to clear a bed in the ER.
Miriam Lancaster’s story sparked “outrage” after she shared that she was offered medical assistance in dying (MAID) after arriving at a Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, hospital with back pain.
In 2025, 84-year-old Lancaster was taken to Vancouver General Hospital via ambulance after waking up with intense back pain. She was taken out of the ambulance and placed into the emergency room.
“The first person that I remember coming to speak to me was a young lady doctor. And this is where the story begins,” Lancaster recalled in an interview with “EWTN News Nightly.” “The very first thing she said to me was, ‘I would like to offer you MAID.’”
MAID is the euthanasia and assisted suicide law in Canada that allows a physician or nurse practitioner to administer or provide a drug that causes death to the patient.
After the doctor offered MAID, “I said: ‘No, thank you,’” Lancaster said. “I was certainly taken aback, and there were so many other things on my mind.”
Any number of bizarre situations have been documented in the killing-constituents-expediently experiment our Syrupean neighbors to the north are currently conducting, none of which remotely suggest that there are any guardrails in place at all.
Which sort of turned out to be the case the more MPs dug in against and into what Leadbeater was proposing. Maybe she really wasn't as into guardrails as she made herself out to be.
WTF - This death bill is beginning to look like a cost cutting exercise.
— Bernie (@Artemisfornow) February 25, 2025
Choose to die so your relatives don’t have to sell your house to pay for your care when you get ill.
What could possibly go wrong 🤡 pic.twitter.com/bu42sYdkMl
Malthusians at heart rarely are - they just want you gone and aren't too picky about the details.
Leadbeater's original proposal made it through its third reading, though with far less support from MPs than the second round, as more opposition formed as more people found out about it. But when it got to the House of Lords, it sat and died, appropriately, for lack of time to pass it.
For all intents and purposes, Leadbeater's bill was reintroduced by MP Lauren Edwards this year and passed through its first reading.
Yesterday, during debate before the vote after the second reading, former Prime Minister Theresa May stood up to speak. This is something she rarely does on the floor of Parliament, which made her words all the more powerful.
This is an assisted suicide bill, she began.
We, as a society, believe, she said, that suicide is wrong. The government has a national suicide prevention strategy. This week is World Suicide Awareness Week, and we bemoan the young lives lost to social media pressures. Suicide is wrong. This bill is wrong....
🔥On World Suicide Prevention Day, watch former PM @theresa_may cut through the euphemism & set the record straight on the Bill MPs vote on tomorrow:
— Right To Life UK (@RightToLifeUK) September 10, 2026
“This Bill effectively says suicide is ok…What message does that give to our society? This Bill is wrong and…should not pass!" pic.twitter.com/G9ZvBz2SLb
The MPs voted on the bill this morning. They rejected it by the narrowest of margins, but reject it, they did.
This may get lost in the news shuffle in America, but a huge victory for the dignity and value of human life was scored in the British House of Commons today. We can see what this slippery slope has wrought in Canada, glad to see that Britain (for now) isn’t following suit https://t.co/r4nEqUAyyJ
— Enguerrand VII de Coucy (@ingelramdecoucy) September 11, 2026
The issue is dead until at least 2030.
BREAKING:
— Steven Swinford (@Steven_Swinford) September 11, 2026
MPs have voted AGAINST the assisted dying bill by 286 votes to 270
That's a huge, huge moment
It effectively ends the chance of assisted dying becoming law before 2030
And astonishingly, it wasn't one side or the other - all the parties seem to have met in the middle to knock this down.
...MPs from across the political spectrum came together to oppose the Bill. The Mother and Father of the House of Commons, Labour’s Diane Abbott and the Conservative Sir Edward Leigh, penned a joint article calling for MPs to MPs to unite behind fixing palliative and social care and leave this divisive debate behind.
The Bill was defeated at Second Reading, with Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch, Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey and Reform UK leader Nigel Farage all uniting in their opposition to the proposals. They were joined by senior Labour figures including Angela Rayner, Wes Streeting and Shabana Mahmood, alongside former Public Health Minister Ashley Dalton. Jeremy Corbyn, Nigel Farage, Ayoub Khan and Rupert Lowe all recognised the Bill is not fit to become law.
The British Parliament has now joined its fellow Scottish legislators in rejecting the suicide cult.
...“After a two-year-long national debate, the country has decided to reject assisted suicide, settling the issue for a generation.”
“Evidence from overseas shows that, had this legislation become law, countless vulnerable people nearing the end of life would have been pressured or coerced into ending their lives”.
“MPs’ decision follows that of the Scottish Parliament earlier this year, which also decisively rejected assisted suicide in a landmark vote.”
“In both Westminster and Holyrood, parliamentary scrutiny and expert testimony have shown that assisted suicide simply cannot be legalised in a safe way that protects vulnerable people. As is tragically evident elsewhere, many vulnerable people die under assisted suicide and euthanasia laws.”
“But as this debate ends, the real fight has only just begun.”
The National Health System (NHS) now needs to be the focus so those folks suffering from horrific terminal illnesses no longer have to look to a lottery for palliative care.
Oh, yes, socialized medicine and Medicare for All cheerleaders. When one dies of cancer or some equally painful malady in a socialized medicine regime, you take your chances with the fates for care and pain relief.
...“It is vital that MPs now unite to give full attention to fixing the fundamental issues with health and end-of-life care provision, focusing on the goal of delivering universal access to high-quality palliative care, ensuring true dignity and care for all at the end of life.”
“The postcode lottery for outstanding palliative care has gone on for too long. We must now all come together to address the challenge of providing excellent palliative care to everyone who needs it, when they need it, and wherever they live. People nearing the end of their lives deserve the best support and care, and we can and must do better.”
And don't think that only holds for old folks and adults. Suffering infants and children get tossed into the bowl and hope their number gets pulled, too, before they die or are allowed to die for lack of care.
Yeah. Socialism is great.
The British people were firmly behind killing the suicide bill, especially after even the new Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, came out and basically said, 'How about we not start killing people until we've completely fixed the FIXING people part first?'
Press release – Major setback for assisted suicide lobby as Prime Minister Andy Burnham says assisted suicide debate should not happen while palliative and social care remains poorly funded
29 July 2026 – In a major setback for the assisted suicide lobby ahead of the 11 September vote on the revived assisted suicide Bill, the Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, has said that the debate around introducing assisted suicide should not take place in a context where palliative and social care remains poorly funded, confirming “that’s the position I will stick to”.
...An MRP poll of over 10,000 people, the largest public poll conducted on assisted suicide since Kim Leadbeater’s Bill was introduced in October 2024, has shown that there is no mandate from the public to revive Leadbeater’s failed assisted suicide bill and circumvent the House of Lords to push it into law.
Legalising assisted suicide came rock bottom of a list of voters’ priorities they want their MP to focus on if they have the opportunity to make a law change (e.g. through a Private Members’ Bill) over the next year, with half the support of the next lowest scoring priority. Asked to select three priorities, just 7% of the public and 7% of Labour voters consider assisted suicide a priority.
In line with Burnham’s position on assisted suicide, in every single constituency in Great Britain, the majority of voters agreed that Parliament should prioritise fixing the NHS and improving palliative, social and end-of-life care before considering whether to introduce assisted suicide.
That would be a good start.
And while it's a daunting task, whipping the NHS into some semblance of efficiency and competent care for its patients- the nation's citizens- all they have to do is look to Canada to see what the alternative could be.
They'll jump right back to work.
