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Members of parliament have voted by 314 to 291 to approve a bill that would make assisted dying legal in England and Wales, a move described as the biggest social change since the Abortion Act 1967.
The vote after an emotional debate in the House of Commons to give the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill a third reading means the bill will now go for further scrutiny to the House of Lords, where commentators have suggested the decision to give it a third reading meant it was almost certain to become law. There is a convention that the Lords will not interfere with the decisions of the democratically elected house, although the size of the majority, reduced to 23 from the 55 MPs who previously voted to approve the bill in principle, could influence peers opposed to the …
