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September 14, 2015

British Parliament rejects controversial right-to-die bill

A demonstrator against "assisted dying" joins a protest outside the Houses of Parliament in London Sept. 11. Archbishop Peter Smith of Southwark has welcomed the overwhelming defeat of a bill to legalize assisted suicide in England and Wales.

CANTERBURY, England - British parliamentarians on Friday (Sept. 11) soundly rejected a right-to-die bill that would have allowed people with less than six months to live to end their life legally.

Published in International