Assisted suicide Bill soundly rejected

CARE  |  UK & Ireland
Date posted:  1 Oct 2015
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Assisted suicide Bill soundly rejected

Protest at parliament | photo: Adrian Creedy

The latest attempt to liberalise the current law and introduce assisted suicide has been comprehensively defeated in the Commons on Friday 11 September.

The Assisted Dying Bill (No 2) was soundly rejected by MPs at Second Reading with 330 MPs voting against the legislation and 118 voting in favour.

The legislation, based on Lord Falconer’s previous Bill in the House of Lords came in for strong criticism by MPs across the chamber for a whole variety of reasons, most notably in relation to the so called safeguards.

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