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Informed assisted dying debate
Assisted dying legislation: private member’s bills and the need for more research
BMJ 2025; 388 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.r386 (Published 28 February 2025) Cite this as: BMJ 2025;388:r386
- Lesley J Fallowfield, professor of psycho-oncology
- Sussex Health Outcomes Research and Education in Cancer (SHORE-C), Brighton and Sussex Medical School, University of Brighton and University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
- l.j.fallowfield{at}sussex.ac.uk
McCartney makes many cogent, well argued points about how potential legislation as a result of a private member’s success is essentially a lottery.1 Like it or not, this is our parliamentary system, and over decades many important issues have entered law as a result—for example, Sydney Silverman’s abolition of the death penalty, David Steel’s abortion act, Paul …
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