Terminal Illness Assisted Dying Act of 2023 - Elrondia

Rationale

Narrows assisted dying to terminal illness to prevent abuse while ensuring compassionate end-of-life care for those with no hope of recovery.

Proposed Changes

	Law	Previous		Proposed
1	Assisted Dying Policy	Broad right-to-die for chronic physical or psychological suffering		Permitted for terminal illness with less than 6 months to live

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Assisted Dying Policy

Previous law

Broad right-to-die for chronic physical or psychological suffering

Permitted for terminal illness with less than 6 months to live

Proposer

Party

Labour

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Core pillars

Eleanor King

Activist · Age 42

20,224 social followers

A working-class veteran turned activist, Eleanor King leverages her military discipline and media savvy to expose injustices in welfare cuts and push for equitable policies from the front lines of every protest.

🎖️ Former Military 📺 Media Savvy 🔨 Working Class Background

Timeline

Draft

29 June 2023
Vote Open

29 June 2023
Vote Closed

28 August 2023
Did Not Become Law

28 August 2023

Vote tally

Live tally across each chamber. Weighted by seats held.

House Of Commons

Failed

65Yes 74No 58Abstained 43Not voted 240 seats

For: 65 / 240 seats (27.1%)

Against: 74 · Abstained: 58 · Not voted: 43

50.1% of those voting must vote in favour (actual = 46.8%)

Party	Seats	Vote	Reason
Freedom Alliance	25	No	Individual bodily autonomy is paramount, and every competent adult has the right to make their own end-of-life decisions without state interference. Restricting assisted dying to arbitrary timeframes infringes upon personal liberty and individual self-ownership.
Iron Pillars	23	No	Again the individual should be able to decide for themselves.
Labour Proposer	65	Yes	No reason given
National Conservative	26	No	Let the individual people decide
Technocratic Union	58	Abstain	We support evidence-based and carefully regulated end-of-life policy, but the six-month cutoff requires further evidence before we can support it. We therefore abstain rather than make a decision based primarily on ideology.

House Of Representatives

Failed

5Yes 19No 17Abstained 7Not voted 48 seats

For: 5 / 48 seats (10.4%)

Against: 19 · Abstained: 17 · Not voted: 7

50.1% of those voting must vote in favour (actual = 20.8%)

Party	Seats	Vote	Reason
Freedom Alliance	0	No	Individual bodily autonomy is paramount, and every competent adult has the right to make their own end-of-life decisions without state interference. Restricting assisted dying to arbitrary timeframes infringes upon personal liberty and individual self-ownership.
Iron Pillars	10	No	Again the individual should be able to decide for themselves.
Labour Proposer	5	Yes	No reason given
National Conservative	9	No	Let the individual people decide
Technocratic Union	17	Abstain	We support evidence-based and carefully regulated end-of-life policy, but the six-month cutoff requires further evidence before we can support it. We therefore abstain rather than make a decision based primarily on ideology.
Empty seats	16	Not voted

Prime Minister

Failed

0Yes 1No 0Not voted 1 seat

For: 0 / 1 seats (0.0%)

Against: 1 · Abstained: 0 · Not voted: 0

Passes unless the office holder votes against (abstention counts as pass)

Party	Seats	Vote	Reason
Iron Pillars	1	No	No reason given

Voting record

Every vote must state a public reason. Most recent first.

Technocratic Union

Voted July 2, 2023

Abstain

“We support evidence-based and carefully regulated end-of-life policy, but the six-month cutoff requires further evidence before we can support it. We therefore abstain rather than make a decision based primarily on ideology.”

Iron Pillars

Voted July 1, 2023

No

“Again the individual should be able to decide for themselves.”

National Conservative

Voted July 1, 2023

No

“Let the individual people decide”

Freedom Alliance

Voted June 30, 2023

No

“Individual bodily autonomy is paramount, and every competent adult has the right to make their own end-of-life decisions without state interference. Restricting assisted dying to arbitrary timeframes infringes upon personal liberty and individual self-ownership.”