Following an impassioned four-hour debate in the elected House of Commons, the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill was rejected 286 to 270. The outcome was somewhat surprising given that an almost identical bill had passed last year with a margin of 23 votes.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n The vote brings an end to a two-year debate in Parliament about assisted dying, during which the House of Commons had backed assisted dying on two previous occasions. Their backing wasn\u2019t enough for it to become law because it was effectively filibustered by unelected lawmakers in the House of Lords.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Back in the House of Commons on Friday, the bill had proposed allowing adults in England and Wales who have fewer than six months to live to apply for an assisted death subject to the approval of two doctors and an expert panel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Many individual lawmakers relayed their own stories both in favor of and against the proposal. The government took a neutral stance, meaning lawmakers voted according to their consciences rather than along party lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n One lawmaker who was among those to oppose the bill, having previously backed it, spoke about how \u201cnightmares\u201d prompted her to switch sides. Janet Daby said she dreamed of \u201cdying and death\u201d because she had not been \u201centirely comfortable\u201d with her former position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n New British Prime Minister Andy Burnham<\/a> didn\u2019t vote because he said he didn\u2019t want to \u201cunduly influence the debate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Opponents branded the bill unsafe and unworkable, citing concerns around potential coercion of vulnerable people and a lack of safeguards for those with disabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lawmaker and cancer surgeon Dr. Zubir Ahmed also noted uncertainty around a doctor\u2019s prognosis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI have to be honest with you,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen I am asked to prognosticate as to whether someone has six months to live or not, I am as often wrong as I am right.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The leader of Catholics in England and Wales, Archbishop Richard Moth, called the bill \u201cwrong in principle\u201d and \u201cdeeply flawed. The Church of England\u2019s Archbishop of Canterbury, Sarah Mullally, also objected to the bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Medical colleges, including the Royal College of Psychiatrists, had raised \u201cserious concerns\u201d about the bill, saying there were \u201ctoo many unanswered questions about the safeguarding of people with mental illness.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Proponents of \u201c assisted dying \u201c \u2014 sometimes referred to as \u201cassisted suicide\u201d \u2014 had hoped it would mark the biggest change to social policy in the U.K. since abortion was partially legalized in 1967. The intention was to put an end to the practice of those near the end of their lives going to other countries, such as Switzerland, for an assisted death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NBC. Note why they wanted to pass the bill – people were traveling to other countries – Switzerland – to get killed. See the “courageous” comment of the Catholic Prime Minister. Meanwhile the self proclaimed “social justice Catholic” Governor Hochul wrote nine months ago that suicide is a human right. 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