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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Jessica Elgot Deputy political editor

Expand assisted dying bill to help those with Parkinson’s, MPs to hear

Supporters of the assisted dying bill in Westminster.
A number of amendments will be submitted to the bill’s committee this week. Photograph: Martin Godwin/The Guardian

Assisted dying must be expanded to help those with neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s in England and Wales, a former high court judge will tell MPs this week.

Sir Nicholas Mostyn, who has Parkinson’s, will argue that under the current terms of the law passing through parliament, the vast majority of people would need to have terminal cancer before being allowed an assisted death.

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