Thu Mar 17, 2022 – 11:29 am EDT
WESTMINSTER, England (LifeSiteNews) — Britain’s House of Lords struck down an attempt to legalize assisted suicide in England and Wales Wednesday night, rejecting an amendment to the Health and care Bill which would allow terminally ill adults to seek medical assistance to take their own lives.
The amendment, sponsored by Lord Forsyth, was voted down by 179 votes to 145 Wednesday evening, marking the twelfth time that such bills have failed to pass through Parliament in the last 25 years.
Forsyth proposed amending the Health and Care Bill currently making its way through the U.K.’s upper House to include a clause on “assisted dying.” The amendment demanded that the “Secretary of State must, within the period of 12 months beginning with the day on which this Act is passed, lay before Parliament a draft Bill to permit terminally ill, mentally competent adults legally to end their own lives with medical assistance.”
Speaking in the House of Lords last night, Forsyth argued that the amendment “has nothing whatever to do with the wrongs and rights of assisted dying [suicide],” stating that rather it is to enable assisted suicide “to
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