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Disability rights campaigners urge MPs and peers to back assisted dying bill

Disability rights campaigners urge MPs and peers to back assisted dying bill



Group including academics say they are ‘in solidarity with terminally ill people’ on option of having ‘a good death’UK politics live – latest updatesA group of disability rights campaigners and academics have urged MPs and peers to back the legalisation of assisted dying, saying everyone deserves the chance of a good death.Led by Tom Shakespeare, an author, broadcaster and professor of disability research at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, the group told parliamentarians they stood “in solidarity with terminally ill people who want to have the option of an assisted death”. Continue reading…



Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/oct/24/disability-rights-campaigners-urge-mps-peers-back-assisted-dying-bill

Author : Harriet Sherwood

Publish date : 2024-10-24 08:48:15

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