18-05-2025
SARAH VINE: The rules on assisted dying and abortion aren't perfect. But no one has come up with anything better
Death, it seems, is a live topic in Westminster. On the one hand we have Kim Leadbeater's ill-thought-out and chaotic Assisted Dying Bill; on the other Stella Creasy's newest attempt to reform abortion laws so that women like Nicola Packer, who took pills while 26 weeks pregnant resulting in the death of the foetus, cannot be prosecuted.
They say politics is a deadly business, but this is taking it to a whole new level. It all comes down to 'human rights' of course.
