Peers are justified in blocking assisted dying bill - Times leader

  • The Assisted Dying Debate

The House of Lords has been granted ten additional days to debate one of the most consequential pieces of legislation in modern history: the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill. Whether or not you support assisted dying, it is surely right that a proposed change in British law asking such existential questions of who we are is afforded every possible opportunity for scrutiny…….

For the government to take such a hands-off ­approach, nor seek public consent on such an ­important issue, is bizarre. Doing so when the prime minister has publicly said he supports ­assisted dying and voted for the bill is unfathom­able. To date, the process of scrutinising the bill has been inadequate …..

Assisted ­dying is not a government policy, nor was it in an election-winning manifesto…..
Peers who want to continue blocking this bill and prevent it from ever becoming law are justified in doing so. 

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