{"id":137953,"date":"2025-06-20T12:26:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T16:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=137953"},"modified":"2025-06-20T18:36:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T22:36:46","slug":"bbc-in-a-very-narrow-vote-mps-back-assisted-dying-bill-in-historic-commons-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=137953","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) In a very narrow vote MPs back [so-called] assisted dying bill in historic Commons session"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In an historic vote, MPs have approved a bill which would pave the way for huge social change by giving terminally ill adults in England and Wales the right to end their own lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Terminally Ill Adults Bill, which was backed by 314 votes to 291, will now go to the House of Lords for further scrutiny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bill was approved with a majority of 23 MPs, representing a drop from the first time it was debated in November, when it passed by a margin of 55.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The vote came after an emotionally-charged debate which saw MPs recount personal stories of seeing friends and relatives die.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cgeqj1egxvyo\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">MPs back legalising assisted dying in historic Commons vote <br><br>Full story <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FayeBrownSky?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@fayebrownSky<\/a> &#x2b07;&#xfe0f;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1ABPztFnPF\">https:\/\/t.co\/1ABPztFnPF<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Sky News (@SkyNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkyNews\/status\/1936104440823448057?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 20, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an historic vote, MPs have approved a bill which would pave the way for huge social change by giving terminally ill adults in England and Wales the right to end their own lives. The Terminally Ill Adults Bill, which<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=137953\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,103,101,438,199,168,104,114,96,98,151,424,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-aging-the-elderly","category-children","category-death-burial-funerals","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","category-life-ethics","category-marriage-family","category-politics-in-general","category-secularism","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137953"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137958,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137953\/revisions\/137958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}