"My Lords, I was a little unhappy with the answer to the question from the noble Lord, Lord Patel. My understanding, having seen medical students being given injections of adrenaline during a physiology class to see what would happen—in larger doses than you would probably need in this case—is that …..." Lord Winston - View Speech
"I am grateful to the noble Lord for giving way. I just wonder what he feels a GP should do in the circumstance in which he does not approve of assisted dying? Does the noble Lord feel that that is a problem?..." Lord Winston - View Speech
"My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady O’Loan, in fact destroys her own argument, because access to GPs, unfortunately, is still a major problem. In that respect, I greatly congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Gerada, who gave a fantastic maiden speech yesterday explaining the role of the GP and the ideal …..." Lord Winston - View Speech
"Forgive me. What the noble Lord is saying is very interesting, but could he possibly keep to the amendment? The amendments are quite tricky and really do need discussion...." Lord Winston - View Speech
"Does the noble Baroness not accept that there are certain cancers that will give a positive pregnancy test and also be killing the patient, in a very serious condition?..." Lord Winston - View Speech
"My Lords, as Amendment 24 has been tabled and pregnancy has been spoken about, I now feel that I ought to just make one point very quickly. The noble Baroness, Lady Grey-Thompson, quite rightly presented a lot of statistics about cancer, but that she did not address the issue of …..." Lord Winston - View Speech
"My Lords, can we come back to the original Question? We have had some very spurious statistics about fertility and contraception. Does the Minister agree that contraception has been hugely important in getting women back to work and earning money?..." Lord Winston - View Speech
"I wonder whether the noble Baroness might be kind enough to clarify. She is, after all, a hugely respected individual in the field, of which she is such an expert—I do not doubt that for a moment. Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, a fellow of the Royal Society, has been spending her time …..." Lord Winston - View Speech
"My Lords, I suggest that the noble Baroness, meaning absolutely well in a clearly very emotional area, has forgotten the real science. She is not a neuroscientist; indeed, I do not think that the commissioner is a neuroscientist. The greatest expert in the United Kingdom on teenage neuroscience is almost …..." Lord Winston - View Speech