"My Lords, I would like to introduce my Amendment 664. It is designed to ensure not only that no medical professional is obliged to participate in such training but that, in order to do so, the medical professional must give written consent. Professional training aims to show students not only …..." Baroness Lawlor - View Speech
"I am just finishing. I will not take interventions.
A second reason for the amendment, which would require written opt-in for training for medical and other health and care professionals, is that to many—not just in this House but in society as a whole—assisting suicide is deeply immoral and it …..." Baroness Lawlor - View Speech
"I thank the noble Baroness for this. I am talking about medical professionals, and I am also talking about the moral equivalence. Can she remind me where I exactly said that?..." Baroness Lawlor - View Speech
"May I check something regarding my Amendment 664? Given that the noble and learned Lord insists that no person will be under any duty to perform or provide for an act under this measure, will that apply to participation in training, since training is not a duty to do something?..." Baroness Lawlor - View Speech
"The noble and learned Lord’s Amendment 669A refers to Sections 8(7), 11(9) and 26(2), but that is only for medical practitioners, it is not for other medical professionals. It is for that reason I tabled my Amendment 664, so that anybody had to opt in to training for this, not …..." Baroness Lawlor - View Speech
"Somebody who is employed by an agency, or an agency nurse, may not have the whole provision of the text in front of them, and they may not be encouraged to look into the exemptions for conscientious or other reasons about which we have heard. It is for that reason, …..." Baroness Lawlor - View Speech
"My Lords, I will speak to my amendments in this group. They aim to tighten the recording rules in Clause 7 and would make them even tighter than the seven-day limit proposed by the noble Baroness—to whom I am very grateful for her remarks. I propose that, where the discussion …..." Baroness Lawlor - View Speech
"My Lords, the amendment from the noble Baroness, Lady O’Loan, regrets the failure to conduct an impact assessment in relation to Clause 246. Yet, as we have heard, the clause that decriminalises abortion up to birth will have the gravest of consequences for viable babies—now protected in law—for their mothers’ …..." Baroness Lawlor - View Speech
"It reveals a Government unequal to the great task of governing the nation with which the electorate has entrusted it.
I particularly regret it because it brings disgrace to the Mother of Parliaments and, indirectly, to a country which, although it had no hand in the matter, could always hold …..." Baroness Lawlor - View Speech