Members of the British House of Commons voted today to pass a dangerous bill to legalize assisted suicide. While the Third Reading vote was closer than previous votes on the measure, 314 to 291, MPs still put their stamp of approval on the bill that will likely result in pressuring disabled and elderly people to kill themselves. Making the opening speech for the opponents of the Bill, former minister Sir James Cleverly said the rushed process produced a terrible bill. “We were told at second reading that a lot of the concerns, a lot of the worries, a lot of the detailed questions would be resolved through the committee process. We were promised the gold-standard, a judicially underpinned set of protections and safeguards,” he said. “Those protections did not make it through committee.”
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