Proposals to change the law to give terminally ill people 'choice at the end of life' are to be introduced in parliament this month. Labour MP Kim Leadbeater tells Sky News why she is campaigning for the change.
Allowing terminally ill people to end their lives would not lead to a 'slippery slope' of widening eligibility criteria, an MP pushing for the law has insisted. Kim Leadbeater told Sky News there is a misconception that in countries where assisted dying has been introduced, the scope has been broadened over time.
In 2023, when he was leader of the opposition, he said he believed there were 'grounds for changing the law', having voted in favour of legalising it back in 2015. But arguments against it include people being pressured to have an assisted death against their will, the criteria expanding too much and the reduction of funding for palliative care for those who do not wish to end their lives.
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