by Rosa Monkton, Daily Mail
[…] As the mother of an adult with a learning disability I am petrified by the lack of protection for vulnerable people in the assisted suicide Bill.
You spend much of your life as a parent of a disabled child fighting for the necessary support, for the right school, the therapists, a specialist college. Every time you think you can take a breath and relax, the next milestone and hurdle awaits. You worry endlessly.
The biggest concern for every parent is what will happen when we are dead. Who will look after our ‘child’, who will understand their needs, care for them in the right way and facilitate their way through life?
But now, to add to that worry, is another enormous and unspeakable question – how can we stop them being killed?