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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Will Durrant

MP ‘will not be complicit’ in approving assisted dying law in safeguards call

Protesters hold up signs which read ‘don’t prescribe suicide’ (Rosie Shead/PA) - (PA Wire)

Assisted dying safeguards to prevent coercion and “terrible tragedy” are “inadequate”, MPs have argued as they debated a draft new law.

Labour’s Naz Shah warned that the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill is “literally a matter of life and death” and said she would not be “complicit” in approving a law without adequate protections.

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