She won 16 medals for wheelchair racing - and set 35 world records. Now, Baroness Grey-Thompson is one of our powerhouses in the House of Lords, and she’s been talking about assisted suicide, and euthanasia, for many years - here she is in 2014 on one of the many previous bills put before parliament. On the podcast Tanni Grey-Thompson tells us:

• Of safeguard after safeguard rejected by the MPs considering the bill: even training for those raising this with people with learning disabilities or Down’s Syndrome.

• how often people think becoming disabled is what would cause them to need assisted suicide. Baroness Grey-Thompson was told by someone in central lobby of parliament: “if my life was like yours, I’d want to kill myself”

• Why this bill will affect disabled people - and why she wants honesty from Assisted Dying campaigners.

In Other News on Assisted Dying this week

Naz Shah MP “is particularly worried about the impact the legislation could have on women. “This is a gendered bill,” she insisted. “It will affect women more from a femicide perspective.” Jane Monckton-Smith, a leading authority on coercive control, has described the bill as “the worst thing potentially that we’ve ever done to domestic abuse victims”. Shah believes the bill “is ultimately an amendment to the Suicide Act. That worries me,” she said, pointing out that deaths by suicide among victims of domestic abuse now surpass the number killed by an intimate partner.” First interview with Naz Shah, the MP who has been so impressive in arguing to protect women in the bill committee. New Statesman, register to read.

Naz Shah MP’s interview with Hannah Barnes features a quote from our podcast ASSISTED with Prof Jane Monckton Smith. Listen here:

"This bill is going to be the worst thing potentially that we've ever done to domestic abuse victims"

Have you written to your MP? Labour’s Jess Asato is holding an event in parliament and we want your MP to attend: tell them how you feel today