UK lawmakers back bill to allow terminally ill adults to end their lives
UK lawmakers
on Friday backed a bill to allow
terminally ill adults
in England and Wales to choose to end their lives in a historic vote in Parliament that takes it a step nearer to becoming law.
Members of Parliament voted 314-291 to back the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill following an impassioned and respectful debate.
The bill now goes to the unelected
House of Lords
, which can amend or delay policy, though it can't overrule the lower chamber.
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The bill would allow terminally ill adults over age 18 in England and Wales, who are deemed to have less than six months to live, to apply for an
assisted death
.
The terminally ill person would have to be capable of taking the
fatal drugs
themselves.
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