Good to stand today as one of 62 Peers who opposed the Meacher Bill today, including doctors, Peers with disabilities, lawyers, and many who say that the Bill has inadequate safeguards. It should not be allowed onto the Statute Books....
Dr Miro Griffiths warns that “Assisted dying would undermine the fight for equality”.
OPINION Assisted dying would undermine the fight for equality By Miro GriffithsSeptember 27, 2021, 11:45 am Disabled people are often marginalised and forgotten by society (Photo: Roman Zaiets/Shutterstock) I am a disabled person. I consider disability to be the...
Government promoting new test to make the taking of life even easier.Care and kill, defend and destroy, equality and discrimination, can never be used as synonyms. Search and destroy should be replaced by love and embrace. The Don’t Screen Us Out campaign calls on the government to halt the implementation of cfDNA screening and to introduce reforms which would support those with Down’s syndrome and their families. And listen to Tommy Jessop reminding us that this is about “to be or not to be” – to have the chance to live or not to live.
Government promoting new test to make the taking of life even easier. Care and kill, defend and destroy, equality and discrimination, can never be used as synonyms. Search and destroy should be replaced by love and embrace. The Don’t Screen Us Out campaign calls on...
Government replies on the disproportionate effects of Covid on people with disabilities; of negligence affecting people on care homes; the recall of faulty face masks; and what plans are in place (1) to acquire, (2) to stock, and (3) to distribute, gowns, masks, eye protection, gloves and other personal protective equipment, which is sufficiently adequate to protect clinical and care workers in the NHS and care sector in preparation for a potential second wave of COVID-19.
Government replies on the disproportionate effects of Covid on people with disabilities; of negligence affecting people on care homes; the recall of faulty face masks; and what plans are in place (1) to acquire, (2) to stock, and (3) to distribute, gowns, masks, eye...
The Killing Of People With Down’s Syndrome: Richard Dawkins says it’s immoral to let a Down’s Syndrome baby be born. Since when have eugenics been moral or ethical? What would happen if you were diagnosed with Dawkins’ Syndrome?
Well written piece on Down's Syndrome: http://m.huffpost.com/uk/entry/5881256?utm_hp_ref=uk See Photographer with Down's syndrome who 'sees the world differently' 9 September 2014 Last updated at 00:01 BST Photographer Oliver Hellowell has Down's syndrome, which his...
Drama and Music To Make Us Think: Disability Hate Crime, Religious Persecution, Bullying, Relationships, the Holocaust, North Korea, Scapegoating of Minorities…
A theatre company, consisting primarily, but not exclusively, of actors with learning disabilities, recently came to Westminster to perform their play “Living without Fear” – and in one short hour achieved more in raising awareness about...
Scroungers Versus Strivers – and a wholly unacceptable decision to hit disabled people's mobility allowances.
Sarah Tether will have made few friends among some of her former Government colleagues by voting against the Welfare Benefits Uprating Bill – but she was courageous and right to do so. She was also right in saying that it is the politics of the playground to paint a...
Scroungers Versus Strivers – and a wholly unacceptable decision to hit disabled people’s mobility allowances.
Sarah Tether will have made few friends among some of her former Government colleagues by voting against the Welfare Benefits Uprating Bill – but she was courageous and right to do so. She was also right in saying that it is the politics of the playground to paint a...
New Calls To End Eugenic Abortions In The Week A Judge Handed Down A Sentence of 8 Years For The Death of An Unborn Child
In the same week that a Judge handed down a sentence of eight years to a woman who killed her unborn baby at 39 weeks gestation, calls have been made to end eugenic abortions in Britain (see below). There is a link between these two stories because if the...
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Some Books Worth Reading.... https://www.davidalton.net/category/books-to-read/ No Greatness Without Goodness by Randy Lewis I would really recommend No Greatness Without Goodness by Randy Lewis. He was Senior Vice...
For 18 years David Alton was a Member of the House of Commons and today he is an Independent Crossbench Life Peer in the UK House of Lords.
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At the crossroads: Will the free world choose isolationism or global leadership? Essay for GIS Reports April 19th 2024.
https://www.gisreportsonline.com/r/crossroads-isolationism-leadership At the crossroads: Will the free world choose isolationism or global leadership? LORD DAVID ALTON OF LIVERPOOL READING TIME: 16 MIN History teaches us that isolationism leads to disaster. Will the...
Letter from the Lord (David) Alton and Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP, co chairs of the All Party Parliamentary Group on North Korea, to Lord (David) Cameron, the Foreign Secretary, about the CCP’s forced repatriation of North Korean refugees in breach of both the 1951 Refugee Convention and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
£1 Trillion – Raised In Parliament Today. The Cost of Reparations In Ukraine and Bringing To Justice Those Responsible.
https://youtu.be/xlEfrgwELvc Alongside the fatalities, injuries and chronic suffering and misery which Putin’s war has brought to Ukraine, the economic cost of rebuilding and remedying war damage is now estimated to be close to £1 trillion. Yesterday David...