The Isle of Man parliament will vote on the Assisted Dying Bill this week, which could lead to the legalisation of assisted dying services by 2025. Dr Alex Allinson, the doctor behind the bill, is cautiously optimistic about the outcome of the vote.
The doctor behind a bill which could see the first place in the British Isles come a step closer to legalising assisted dying said he is “cautiously optimistic” a vote this week will go through.
Dr Allinson introduced it last year as a private member’s bill in his capacity as a Member of the House of Keys for the Ramsey area on the island. He said: “If we can do the work in terms of getting the regulations, the guidance, the training, the support, the education right, then we’d be looking at bringing it in around about that time .”If voted through this week, the bill would then immediately be put to another vote on whether it is to be scrutinised by a small committee or debated by the whole parliament.
Campaigners from Care Not Killing said changing the law would perpetuate a message “that those with a terminal or chronic condition will die in terrible pain, that current palliative care cannot help them, and they should instead opt to have doctors administer death row drugs to end their lives”.
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