Diane Abbott has suggested the safeguards for the Assisted Dying Bill are not “sufficient” after Kim Leadbeater, the MP behind the Terminally Ill Adults Bill, opened the debate to call for “choice, autonomy and dignity”.
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00:00But I would recall to the House that in 1969 Parliament voted to abolish the death penalty
00:10for murder. Public opinion was actually against this, but MPs believed on a point of principle
00:22that the state should not be involved in taking a life. It was a good principle in
00:311969 and it remains a good principle today. I am not against legalising assisted dying
00:43in any circumstance, but I have many reservations about this Bill and in particular I do not
00:54believe that the safeguards are sufficient. They are supposed to be the strongest in the
01:03world because of the involvement of a High Court judge.