Legalising assisted suicide could lead to vulnerable people being 'pressurised' into ending their own lives, Theresa May warned today as the fight to block the controversial law change moved to the House of Lords.
The former prime minister told peers that the plans could have a catastrophic impact on disabled people, those with chronic physical illness or mental health problems.
She is among almost 200 peers expected to speak over two days of debate on the plan to allow doctors to allow terminally ill people to end their own lives.
The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill would make assisted dying available to adults in England and Wales with a terminal diagnosis of less than six months to live.
Labour peer Lord Falconer, who is sponsoring the bill in the Lords, warned peers not to 'frustrate' its passage, having already cleared the Commons.
