A British MP has said that a proposal seeking to legalise assisted suicide in England and Wales may now fail when it returns to the House of Commons next month as “there is now a steady stream of MPs flipping against the Bill”.
The bill, which was drafted by Labour’s Kim Leadbeater, sought to legalise assisted suicide for terminally ill adults with less than six months to live – but while the proposed legislation passed by 55 votes last November, with 330 MPs backing it, and 275 opposed, it has since been the subject of scrutiny at a Committee of MPs selected by Leadbeater to examine the legislation line-by-line.
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