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The latest version of the Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill Bill in the UK parliament was rejected for good reasons, says Baroness Ilora Finlay, a member of the Select Committee consulted about the previous version of the Bill. She claims, in the July issue of The Lancet Oncology, that the revised Bill still failed to incorporate the recommendations made by experts. Baroness Finlay explains that this was the third version of the Bill to be presented to the UK parliament, and despite a substantial amount of time spent taking evidence from more than 140 witnesses, this version of the Bill failed to address key recommendations from the Select Committee's report and did not differentiate clearly between assisted dying and euthanasia. She also explains the fallacy of thinking that safeguards are watertight.
Why a third attempt at legislation for physician-assisted suicide in the UK failed
Lancet Oncology - Vol. 7, Issue 7, July 2006, Pages 529-531
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/article/PIIS1470204506707367/fulltext
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