Assisted Suicide Bill Returns to Commons as MPs Remain Divided

Assisted Suicide Bill Returns to Commons as MPs Remain Divided

Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide bill is unsafe and does not adequately protect the vulnerable, critics of the proposals said during a debate in the House of Commons. On Friday, the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, which would legalise medical-assisted suicide for terminally-ill adults with less than six months to live, returned to Parliament for the Report Stage, where MPs began to debate and vote on some 100 amendments. One amendment…

Large number of MPs speak out against dangerous assisted suicide Bill at Report Stage, as several MPs turn against the Bill

As the flaws and unworkability in the assisted suicide Bill came under scrutiny during Report Stage of the Bill today, two more MPs joined a number of MPs who announced earlier in the week that they will be switching their vote to oppose the Bill at Third Reading having either supported or abstained on it at Second Reading. Earlier today, MPs debated amendments during Report Stage of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, which intends to…