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UK lawmakers to vote on allowing terminally ill adults to end their lives

Britain Assisted Dying - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

British lawmakers are set to vote Friday on whether to back a bill to help terminally ill adults end their lives in England and Wales, in what could be one of the most consequential social policy decisions they will ever make.

Members of Parliament supported legalizing assisted dying when they first debated the issue in November by 330 votes to 275.

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