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I voted against the assisted dying bill, not out of a lack of compassion but because I fear that the law will widen in scope, ... If that happens, the right to die may become the obligation to die."
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I will take evidence, written evidence, oral evidence, we'll get a very thorough, robust bill committee there to scrutinize the bill and make it the best that it possibly can be,
she told reporters after the vote on FridayWe now have months of further debate and I am hopeful that colleagues who have expressed concerns will either succeed in strengthening the bill to make it safe or they'll conclude they haven't been able to do that and then we can defeat it at the later stage, at third reading,
he saidWe are the people who protect the most vulnerable in society from harm and yet we stand on the brink of abandoning that role,
he added
Let’s be clear, we’re not talking about a choice between life or death, we are talking about giving dying people a choice about how to die,
the bill’s main sponsor, Kim Leadbeater, said in the opening speech in a packed chamber
There will be a further opportunity to improve it if we can, and if we can't, then I hope we'll be able to reject it,
Conservative lawmaker Danny Kruger, a leading opponent of the legislation, told Sky News,
There's plenty of time to get this right,
she said after more than four hours of often emotional debate in the chamberIt will be a very thorough process,
Kim Leadbeater, the Labour lawmaker who introduced the bill, told the BBC, addingThere’s been lots of assurances about safeguards,
Gordon Macdonald, CEO of advocacy group Care Not Killing told Reuters
If I want assisted death, which I do because I want to have the choice, I will have to go to Switzerland… to achieve that,
she told Sky NewsI’m fortunate because I can afford to go, ... but for all the hundreds of thousands of people in the future who can’t afford that and who want to die in their own homes surrounded by the people they love… they will have the choice if this law is changed and that would be a very good change.”
she addedThis is not about killing off people who are not wanted in society,
said Emma Hobbs, 54, a former nurse who was holding photographs of her father
Don't make doctors killers." ... My dying wish is my family won't see me suffer. And I won't have to."
One demonstration outside parliament on Friday morning held up banners saying ... Large adverts in the nearby Westminster transport station stateAll the studies from this country and others show that estimating [whether a patient has] six months left to live is extremely difficult and not that accurate,
says Irene Higginson, professor of palliative care and policy at King’s College London and scientific director of the charity Cicely Saunders International
This is such a vital life and death issue, one that we the public care desperately about,
Rantzen said in a public letter