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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Aine Fox

Assisted dying fears not realised, Australian MPs tell Westminster

Labour MP Kim Leadbeater’s Bill on assisted dying will go before MPs on Friday (Ben Whitley/PA) - (PA Wire)

Politicians behind Australian assisted dying laws have written to MPs saying that end-of-life care there is “now safer and fairer than ever before”, on the eve of a major vote at Westminster.

Six parliamentarians who led reforms in their states insisted “none of the fears that were put forward as reasons not to change the law have been realised”.

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