The government must not legalise assisted suicide because it risks posing a ‘serious threat’ to disabled people, campaigners have told MPs.
Before the summer recess, the Health and Social Care Committee published an anonymised transcript of a roundtable discussion it held in May as part of its inquiry into assisted suicide and euthanasia.
Four representatives of disability groups in the UK strongly voiced their objections to any changes in the law, concerned that loosening the law could leave vulnerable people at risk.
