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Exclusive: George Carey’s position in stark contrast to that of current head of C of E and that of Islam and the Catholic church

Kim Leadbeater, who introduced her assisted dying bill in the Commons yesterday, has said it’s all about the safeguards. Well, no, it’s not. It’s about a clash of irreconcilable principles. On the one hand, there’s Kim’s contention that “too many people have been condemned to die in misery and pain”.…

Debate on a bill to legalize assisted dying in Britain, allowing doctors to help terminally ill patients.

The Private Member’s Bill calls for terminally ill people in England and Wales to be given the right to choose to end their life

Today Westminster begins its scrutiny of a bill that could for ever change the way we live or die in England and Wales, say Rachel Clarke, Lucy Webster and others

Labour MP Kim Leadbeater believes a new law could be tightly drawn to restrict it to applying to the terminally ill

A new bill aiming to legalize assisted dying in Britain is set to be introduced in Parliament on Wednesday, marking the first time in nearly a decade that lawmakers will debate allowing doctors to help end people’s lives after previous court challenges to change the law failed

Justin Welby warns new law risks turning right to die into a duty ahead of bill being formally introduced in parliament

Kim Leadbeater, sponsor of bill, says it will include ‘stringent’ criteria and only apply to terminally ill adults