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MPs to vote on legalising assisted dying in England and Wales
The proposal passed the Commons earlier this year but its progress stalled due to opposition in the Lords
The legalisation of assisted dying in England and Wales could move a step closer on Friday when MPs vote on a proposal to introduce it.
The bill would allow adults with fewer than six months to live to apply to be given help to end their own life, subject to certain safeguards.
Labour MP Lauren Edwards, the bill's sponsor, said there was a "real human cost to the delay" in passing the legislation - but opponents say it lacks sufficient safeguards, particularly for vulnerable people.
The last effort to change the law was supported by MPs but stalled in the House of Lords earlier this year after peers tabled more than 1,200 amendments.
Edwards said she was asking MPs to send the same law "back to the House of Lords so that they can finish what they started".
She said the Lords has an "important role in scrutinising, refining and often improving legislation" sent to them by the Commons, adding: "Let them amend this bill if they choose to and send it back to MPs for a final decision.
"That is how our democratic decisions are made and what should happen now.
"There is a real human cost to the delay in passing this legislation and correcting the injustices and cruelty of the current law."
Veteran broadcaster Dame Esther Rantzen, a high-profile campaigner for assisted dying, called on MPs to support the bill, saying her own life with terminal cancer had become "unbearable".