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The Lords has heard some personal and moving stories from peers in the assisted dying bill debate. Nick Markham spoke about his mother, a Marie Curie nurse who supported terminally ill people, who was diagnosed with late-stage womb cancer in 2007.
That experience changed how I see the debate. I consider myself broadly in favour of assisted dying because I believe in choice, in personal autonomy. But what I witnessed, and what I’ve learned since is what has happened to my mother happens quietly all the time across the country, informally and inconsistently, with no upfront oversight, no safeguards. The current ban does not prevent assisted dying. It simply makes it unregulated, unequal and unsafe.
I am sorry that we’ve let them down and all I can say and pledge, and I know I speak for many, many of our colleagues here, is that we will try.
We will try and we will try again to bring this bill back as soon as possible in the next session, to do what is right democratically, and most importantly of all, to give those people who are terminally ill hope and choice of a better way to die. Continue reading…
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