keep disabled people out of the Assisted Dying bill

The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill makes provision for a person who is terminally ill and meets the eligibility criteria to choose to request and lawfully be provided with assistance to end their own life. The Bill is currently being considered by Parliament. Clause 2 of the Bill defines when a person is “terminally ill” for the purposes of the Bill. The person must have an inevitably progressive illness, disease or medical condition that cannot be reversed by treatment, and must also be expected to die within 6 months. Subsection (2) of the Clause makes it clear that a person is not to be regarded as terminally ill by reason of them being mentally ill or having a disability. You can read more about this in the Bill's Explanatory Notes, available here: https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3774/publications If you'd like changes to be made to the Bill, you could start a petition about that. Or if you'd like changes to the support for disabled people more generally, you could start a petition setting out what action you'd like the Government or Parliament to take.