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Lloyd Jones

Assisted-dying laws now nationwide but gag under fire

Doctors will be banned from raising assisted dying with terminally ill patients under new NT laws. (Julian Smith/AAP PHOTOS)

One territory's gag clause stopping doctors from raising assisted dying with patients risks depriving terminally ill people of choice, an end-of-life law expert says.

The Rights of the Terminally Ill bill passed on a conscience vote in the Northern Territory parliament on Thursday, with the gag intact.

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