Domestic violence victims must be included in the assisted dying debate, campaigners say

Kim Leadbeater, whose bill on assisted dying was passed in November, says she is ‘absolutely committed to ensuring the right protections are in the bill’. Photograph: Carl Court/Getty Images

There is a “significant risk” that victims of coercive control could be put under pressure to end their own lives using assisted dying legislation, charities have warned.

The Centre for Women’s Justice (CWJ) and Standing Together Against Domestic Abuse were among expert organisations that made submissions earlier this month to the committee examining the assisted dying bill, warning that the plans in their current form could endanger victims of coercive control.