Assisted dying law PASSES first hurdle in Commons - see how your MP voted

In affectional scenes, MPs lined up to archer stories of the symptom and suffering of loved ones oregon their constituents during astir 5 hours of statement connected assisted dying

MPs person voted by 330 votes to 275 successful favour of a historical bid to change the instrumentality connected assisted dying.

The Bill, brought guardant by Labour MP Kim Leadbeater, would let allow terminally sick adults successful England and Wales with little than six months to unrecorded to extremity their lives, taxable to the support of 2 doctors and a High Court judge. Emotions ran precocious arsenic Ms Leadbeater recounted stories of radical who had watched their loved ones suffer achy and drawn-out deaths.

She told MPs: "I cognize that this is not easy. It surely hasn't been casual for me. But if immoderate of america wanted an casual life, I'm acrophobic we are successful the incorrect place. It is our occupation to code analyzable issues and marque hard decisions.

"And I cognize for galore radical this is simply a precise hard decision. But our occupation is besides to code the issues that substance to people, and aft astir a decennary since this taxable was debated connected the level of the House, galore would accidental this statement is agelong overdue."

More than 160 MPs had signed up to talk during the debate, with affectional scenes arsenic they lined up to archer stories of the symptom and suffering of loved ones oregon their constituents.

Tory MP Alicia Kearns said her mother’s acquisition of crab made her enactment assisted dying - and argued it was incorrect not to springiness radical the choice. But Labour MP Florence Eshalomi fought backmost tears arsenic she described however her precocious parent "wanted to live" contempt her chronic illness.

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