Expert witnesses expose multiple gaps and failings in assisted suicide Bill

  • The Assisted Dying Debate

from The Christian Institute

Serious misgivings about plans to legalise assisted suicide in England and Wales have been set before Peers.

During two days of evidence this week, the House of Lords Select Committee considering the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill heard key witnesses expose gaps, flaws and weaknesses in Kim Leadbeater MP’s proposals.

The Select Committee is required to report back by 7 November, with Peers scheduled to begin debating amendments to the Bill in a ‘Committee of the Whole House’ on 14 November.

‘Moral hazard’

Professor Katherine Sleeman, Laing Galazka Chair in Palliative Care at King’s College London, told Peers: “We know from evidence, and I see it in clinical practice, that palliative care can alleviate the wish for a hastened death. Palliative care can help people who want to die want to live.”

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