London CNN —An emotional, accelerating campaign to allow assisted dying for terminally ill adults in Britain has reached parliament, with activists hoping the country will become one of few to legalize the process.
Opponents of legalization have argued that those small figures represent a limited appetite for assisted dying in the UK, but there are other pressures at play too.
But some among the country’s lawmakers, who will ultimately decide the fate of the assisted dying law, say there is more to consider.
For Starmer, the assisted dying bill has the potential to disrupt those intentions.
But legalizing assisted dying wasn’t in Labour’s manifesto or in its King’s Speech, limiting the opportunities for it to ever reach MPs.
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