Dignity in Dying

@dignityindying.org.uk

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We believe in choice at the end of life. Including the option of assisted dying for terminally ill, mentally competent adults.

Orange poster: the anti-choice playbook.

Subtitle in bold: Tactic #4 Saying a bill will lead to 1001 things it can't without passing a whole separate law. With an arrow to a box saying swipe.

Graphic titled the anti-choice playbook. Then sub-caption tactic #3: telling the public they don't know what they're talking about.

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The Parliament Act lets the House of Lords do its job properly.
And we hope it does.

But if it doesn't, the Act ensures that this minority of peers cannot force dying people to wait any longer for choice.

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Its called the Parliament Act
and
As the Lords blocked the bill once already, if MPs pass it again, peers can't block it a second time.
The Commons has the final say.

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But the assisted dying bill is back
and
This time our democracy has a defence against their games.

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Eight unelected House of Lords peers tabled 700+ amendments and
Out of a record-breaking 1,200+ in total. They won. by cheating.

Orange poster with two text boxes: "And here's what opponents really don't want you to focus on..." and "This bill has never once lost a vote." .

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75% of the public support assisted dying;
MPs voted for choice twice.

Campaign graphic quoting a Sunday Times columnist admitting their side won the assisted dying bill by cheating. "The truth, I am ashamed to say, is that in the case of the assisted dying bill my side won by cheating."

Orange poster with a man's (Rod Liddle's) portrait and bold quote "My side won by cheating."

Demo photo overlaid with "MPs have unfinished business" and "they must back the assisted dying bill and pass a law that is safe, fair and compassionate"

Demo photo overlaid with captions: "It doesn't have to be like this" and "If the assisted dying bill passes, it would mean that many dying people could avoid painful, lonely and dangerous deaths"

Dignity in Dying campaigners with caption overlaid saying up to 650 terminally ill people end their own lives every year in the UK. And: often alone, and in secret, to protect their loved ones from being prosecuted for helping them die.

Demo photo overlaid with captions. "The blanket ban on assisted dying doesn't keep terminally ill people safe." "It forces them to take action behind closed doors."