"I sat for many hours through the debates on the Employment Rights Bill. When I said that there was a plethora of rights and that we were overdoing it, I was treated with some contempt.
"This is meant to be a debate. I have taken a lot of opposition points. Let me finish. The worry is that civil liability protections do not cover where a duty is owed to the patients. How can doctors who do not wish to offer or discuss assisted dying be …..." Baroness Fox of Buckley - View Speech
"The confusion is that a doctor’s duty is to present a patient with all the possible treatments they could have. If they refuse to mention chemotherapy or that the patient could take this painkiller, they would be negligent and could get struck off. If assisted dying becomes a medical treatment, …..." Baroness Fox of Buckley - View Speech
"My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Cass—that was totally compelling. We will all have to read it and reread it, but it gave us a real sense of what it would be like. Sometimes, we are talking in the abstract.
"“For goodness’ sake”—well, a bit of empathy might be helpful.
Our main focus is understandably on doctors, even nurses, but we must be careful not to assume that those with medical degrees—the professionals—are entitled to a greater respect for their consciences than other relevant workers: like porters.
"People from different political parties have pointed out that we all know that consultations are a way of kicking the ball down the road and are not serious. Call me naive, but I am just saying that I thought they were.
"My Lords, I am not trying to deprive other noble Lords of the chance to speak, but the idea that we go to the Front Benches because we have all heard these arguments before is not fair, because the Government have put before us the widest set of proposals that …..." Baroness Fox of Buckley - View Speech
"I had a lot of sympathy with the Government’s position on Report of trying to think about whether we could use consultation before embarking on drastic measures. I am just disappointed that the Government have brought forward at such a late stage these amendments that potentially give draconian powers to …..." Baroness Fox of Buckley - View Speech