The striking parallels between the assisted dying and trans rights movements
Both campaigns share prescriptive sensitivity over language and risk prioritising the rights of a small minority.
The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill returns to the Commons for further consideration on Friday. MPs voted it through in principle by 330 to 375 late last November and must now decide whether to approve it conclusively. Similar legislation is also making its way through the Scottish parliament.
Assisted Dying seems so obviously to be a good cause. What could be wrong with helping to end the pain and indignity of people who are “going to die soon anyway”? The Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is in favour. He promised former TV presenter Esther Rantzen, herself a terminal cancer sufferer, that he would deliver the option of an assisted death. Rantzen now says she is too ill to take advantage of it anyway, although she has remained alive far longer than the prescribed six months.
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