Greater Manchester’s 27 MPs have their say on assisted dying – how will they vote and why?
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manchestereveningnews.co.ukGreater Manchester’s 27 MPs will have their say on assisted dying in the House of Commons tomorrow (Friday). It is the first time the issue of ‘choice at the end of life’ has come before the Commons in nearly a decade.
Labour MP Kim Leadbeater proposed the Private Members Bill in mid-October, which would legalise assisted death under certain conditions for terminally ill adults in England and Wales.
The bill would apply to those who are over 18 years old, have mental capacity, and have six months left to live, with the consent of two medical professionals.
The government is impartial on the issue and so MPs will vote according to their conscience in a ‘free vote’ and not along party lines.
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