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If we’re serious about protecting vulnerable people, we need a new assisted dying law
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By Baroness Meacher
If we’re serious about protecting vulnerable people, we need a new assisted dying law
The purpose of my Assisted Dying Bill, which will be debated at Second Reading tomorrow, is to give dying adults a safeguarded choice to control the timing and manner of their imminent death.
The Assisted Dying Bill will give dying people control at the end of their lives
Health
By Baroness Meacher
The Assisted Dying Bill will give dying people control at the end of their lives
Each of us has an idea of what we would find unbearable at the end of our life. All I ask is that we can decide for ourselves: is this level of suffering bearable for me?
The laws around medically assisted dying are broken and should be amended
Health
By Baroness Meacher
The laws around medically assisted dying are broken and should be amended

Today, Baroness Meacher will ask an question in the House of Lords on whether the threat of prosecutions under the Suicide Act 1961 is causing suffering to mentally competent, terminally ill people at the end of their lives. She writes about the topic for PoliticsHome.
A majority of the country wants change on ‘broken’ assisted dying law Partner content
Health
By Dignity in Dying
A majority of the country wants change on ‘broken’ assisted dying law

Baroness Meacher writes for PoliticsHome and urges the Government to reconsider assisted dying laws in the face of decades of good practice examples in the United States, and strong support for change in the UK.