MPs today added fresh safeguards to assisted dying laws as they voted in favour of an advertising ban and to prohibit health staff from raising the subject with children.
The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill underwent a second day of report stage in the House of Commons as they debated various amendments.
A majority of MPs approved a new clause, tabled by Labour MP Dame Meg Hillier, to ensure medics cannot raise the topic of assisted dying with under-18s.
This saw opponents of the Bill claim Kim Leadbeater, the Labour MP who is spearheading the legislation, suffer her first Commons defeat after she voted against Dame Meg's clause.
Campaign group Care Not Killing welcomed 'MPs removing the ability of doctors to raise unprompted assisted suicide with children'.
