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Labour peer Lord Falconer is to launch his fourth bill in the House of Lords this May seeking to legalise assisted suicide, says the website of Dignity in Dying (formerly the Voluntary Euthanasia Society).
http://www.campaignfordignityindying.org.uk/pages/blog/557/2013_how_you_can_help_.html
He will push for doctors to be given the power to help mentally competent adults with less than one year to live to kill themselves.
His last three attempts failed due to concerns about public safety after alarming reports about ‘incremental extensions’ of the law in Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the US state of Oregon.
There are additional worries today about the effect the recession is having on vulnerable people and healthcare provision – increasing concerns that any change in the law would put added pressure on elderly, sick and disabled people to end their lives.
Professional medical bodies and disability groups remain firmly opposed to a change in the law.
The bill will likely get short shrift.