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Lord Willetts raised assisted dying in one Lords debate speech, delivered on 19 September 2025 on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill. In it, he welcomed a new Motion from Baroness Berger and Lord Falconer and said it was important to sc
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“…dy in force under the law today: using the power of the state to forbid some of the most compassionate forms of assisted dying. That is coercion too, and it is causing deep human distress, as we have heard throughout this debate.”
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