Disability rights campaigners urge MPs and peers to back assisted dying bill

Concerns about the value society places on the lives of disabled people are often cited by opponents of assisted dying. Photograph: Phanie/Alamy

A group of disability rights campaigners and academics have urged MPs and peers to back the legalisation of assisted dying, saying everyone deserves the chance of a good death.

Led by Tom Shakespeare, an author, broadcaster and professor of disability research at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, the group told parliamentarians they stood “in solidarity with terminally ill people who want to have the option of an assisted death”.