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Parliament votes for assisted suicide
People take part in a demonstration outside the Houses of Parliament in Westminster, London, to oppose the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, November 29, 2024

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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