MP backs debate on death law
Lancaster and Wyre MP Ben Wallace has called for a parliamentary debate on assisted dying.
The MP is one of 100 Members of Parliament who have signed Early Day Motion (EDM) 230 expressing concern about the choices some terminally ill adults are forced into through a lack of support in the UK.
The call for debate coincides with the Government modernising the law on assisted suicide through the Coroners and Justice Bill.
Sarah Wootton, Chief Executive of Dignity in Dying said: "These 100 MPs agree that there is a problem with the current law, which forces terminally ill adults to travel abroad to die, to ask loved ones or doctors to risk their liberty and help them to die, or to attempt to take their own lives.
"This is a problem that needs addressing with urgency before any more terminally ill adults have to take these desperate decisions – just last week a new case emerge of Peter and Penelope Duff who both had terminal cancer and travelled to Switzerland in order to end their suffering."
MPs will debate the issue on March 23 and 24.
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