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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Aine Fox

Esther Rantzen and terminally ill preacher make case for assisted dying Bill

Assisted dying campaigners have made a plea for the new proposed law to be passed (Jonathan Brady/PA) - (PA Wire)

A terminally ill Christian preacher has criticised the “nonsensical” religious argument against assisted dying that suffering must be part of life, as Dame Esther Rantzen urged MPs to pass a Bill she said could “transform the final days of generations in the future”.

The broadcaster made a plea to parliamentarians on the eve of Friday’s vote to change what she branded a “current, cruel, messy criminal law”.

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