The assisted dying lobby isn’t being honest with you – disabled people are at risk from this bill | Lucy Webster

You’ve been deceived by the campaign for assisted dying, writes Emma Watson .

But what of the people the law would include who they don’t want you to consider? Proponents keep saying that the bill is tightly drawn to exclude disabled people, because it limits eligibility to those with only six months to live.

The line between disability and illness a line this bill relies on is not a sharp distinction.

It is blurry, ever-moving and dependent on social factors far more than biological ones.

But if we are to accurately debate it, and if we are to honestly reckon with the consequences of such a monumental change, we need to at least be completely transparent about who this bill affects. And we need to ask ourselves why it is that assisted dying campaigners aren’t being so forthcoming. - Lucy Webster is a political journalist and the author of The View from Down Here: Life As a Young Disabled Woman.