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MPs have personal beliefs, but also solemn duties: that’s why they must reject the assisted dying bill this week | Gordon Brown

Our obligations to each other are ill served if laws focus unduly on those who want assisted dying. The priority should be the best palliative careAs MPs prepare for the final decisive votes this Friday on one of the most consequential laws of our generation, an act that could determine a person’s right to live or die, they should take time to consider the fundamental flaws in the bill that have been exposed during the debates of recent months.For it has become clear that whatever views people hold on the principle, passing the terminally ill adults (end of life) bill into law would privilege the legal right to assisted dying without guaranteeing anything approaching an equivalent right to high-quality palliative care for those close to death.Gordon Brown was UK prime minister from 2007 to 2010Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here. Continue reading...

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