Biography
Baroness Stroud engaged on assisted dying, maternity care, and safeguarding issues through five debate speeches on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill and related matters. She raised concerns about neurological maturity and informed consent for assisted dying at age 18, advocated for excluding serving prisoners and those detained by hospital order from accessing the procedure, and questioned the application of NHS residency definitions to the Bill. She also contributed to discussions on abortion pills by post schemes and their safeguarding implications.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“I am just carrying on; I am sorry. Mr Worby was jailed in December 2024 after arranging for a friend’s girlfriend to pretend to be pregnant and acquire abortion pills for him via the pills by post scheme. He then spiked a woman’s drink with those pills to induce an abortion against her knowledge.”
Record by topic
- Assisted dying116th of 3716.0
- Palliative & end of life care213th of 5686.0
- Mental health603rd of 8804.0
- Maternity & neonatal363rd of 4382.0
What they’ve said
“…Amendment 22 rightly seeks to exclude serving prisoners and those detained by a hospital order from accessing assisted dying under the Bill. As we have heard, the Bill speaks the language of choice, autonomy and settled intention, yet this group are, in effect, the group least likely to have choice, autonomy and settle…”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2025-12-12 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…I think the reality is that maturity is a scale and choosing to proceed with assisted dying at the age of 18 poses difficult questions, which we must grapple with, about the neurological maturity required for true, settled and informed consent on a matter of such gravity, and not just particular circumstances.”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2025-12-05 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…If we aligned “ordinarily resident” with NHS maternity care, for example, it would act as a definition for who pays but not for who receives the service. All pregnant women are entitled to the service of NHS maternity care; it is only whether it is free that depends on your residency, nationality and immigration status.”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2025-12-05 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…It is not hard to see how assisted suicide could, over time, be portrayed to the elderly or people with disabilities as a way not to be a burden to loved ones. We need to listen to the voices not just of celebrity endorsers of the Bill but of the vulnerable.”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2025-09-19 · Read on Hansard ↗
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