Parliament votes for assisted suicide

PARLIAMENT voted in favour of assisted suicide today despite warnings Britain’s “coercive society” will make the terminally ill and disabled feel a “duty to die.”
Disability activists expressed dismay as MPs voted 330-275 despite a debate that heard the most vulnerable are at risk from “malign intent” online and healthcare bias.
Labour MP Rachael Maskell said the legislation to allow terminally ill adults with a life expectancy of less than six months to end their lives by suicide in England and Wales is the “wrong and rushed answer to a complex problem” and “falls woefully short on safeguarding patients.”
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