Legalising assisted dying will see vulnerable people who have no need to die losing their lives, MPs were warned today ahead do a potentially seismic vote.
Opponents to a change in the law on suicide said that vulnerable people including domestic abuse victims, the disabled and anorexics could all be at risk if doctors are allowed to help them to die.
Protesters swarmed around parliament today ahead of the crunch vote on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, which seeks to allow those diagnosed with less than six months to live to be helped to die.
The biggest change on the law on suicide for decades is expected to take place this afternoon, with the result on a knife edge.
And MPs made impassioned pleas for and against it becoming law. They have a free vote on a 'conscience matter', with most of the parties split between the yes and no camps.
