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Majority of public appears to support assisted dying. Research by the Policy Institute and the Complex Life and Death Decisions group at King’s College London (KCL) in September suggested 63 per ...
The assisted dying Bill is the “wrong and rushed answer to a complex problem”, Labour MP Rachael Maskell said. She told the Commons: “The Bill falls woefully short on safeguarding patients ...
She voted against the bill, and told Today: "I am very worried that vulnerable people will get swept up in the assisted dying route when actually what they really need is access to hospice care ...
Opponents of the assisted dying bill think this service needs to be better funded if terminally ill people are to make a genuine choice between dying naturally or choosing to die earlier.
The Independent analysed public statements from all 650 MPs, in addition to news reports and other available information, to find which MPs will likely vote for or against the assisted dying bill ...
Some MPs who backed the assisted dying Bill have indicated they could consider changing their mind along the process amid concerns over palliative care provision and safeguarding.
The first significant drive to legalize assisted suicide in the United States arose in the early twentieth century. In a 2004 article in the Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Brown University historian Jacob M. Appel documented extensive political debate over legislation to legalize physician-assisted death in Iowa and Ohio in 1906.
Assisted dying would give society a better approach to the end of life, the MP leading a push for a change to the law has said, but opponents warned against bringing in a “state suicide service”.