Thread by @nmdacosta

Kim Leadbeater and 6 pro-Bill MPs on the Committee have tabled 123 amendments. Concerned Committee MPs 88. This is a bad faith argument.

Amendments from across the House include those from 'Ayes' such as Tessa Munt, Wera Hobhouse, Brian Matthews, Claire Hazelgrove 1/

"consequentials" complicate a numbers game but this kind of assertion is very poor.

Would she rather not see amendments from @DamianHinds requiring specific guidance if a doctor suggests assisted suicide to someone who has Downs syndrome? 2/

Or @danfrancis02 raising concerns that a doctor might raise assisted suicide with someone under the age of 18 3/

Or @BrianMathewLD asking for a referral to be made to social workers to check for coercion and pressure 4/

Or @libdemdaisy amendment requiring a doctor to refer if they have any doubt as to a person's capacity 5/

Or @hbaldwin amendment to ensure that reasons for refusal by a doctor are communicated to the CMP and made available to the other doctors and to the Court 6/

This Bill is dealing with very complex matters. It will completely change our society. Report stage may be as little as 5 hours, only some amendments will be selected. This is the one chance MPs have to get this right 7/

More progress could have been made on the first two days of line-by-line scrutiny, but it was pro-bill MPs who moved to adjourn at 5pm.

This is more smoke and mirrors and it is not befitting legislation of this gravity. /end