'The current law is a mess': Dame Esther Rantzen calls for assisted dying vote after MPs' report
Dame Esther Rantzen has made a fresh call for a debate and vote on legalising assisted dying as a report warned that the Government must consider what to do if the law is changed in part of the UK or in the Isle of Man or Jersey.
The Health and Social Care Committee said legalisation in at least one jurisdiction was looking “increasingly likely” and suggested the Government must be “actively involved” in discussions about how to approach differences in the law.
The report into what it described as the “emotive” subject of assisted dying (AD) and assisted suicide (AS) eight months after its final evidence session in July last year, does not make a recommendation for a vote on the issue.
This report does not help very much for those of us who desperately want the current
