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Doctors Oppose Legal Protection For Assisted Suicide Relatives

Owen Bowcott | The Guardian

Doctors today rejected calls to exempt from criminal prosecution relatives and friends who accompany sick or terminally ill patients to assisted suicide clinics.

The decision by the British Medical Association to oppose any change in the law is likely to have a significant influence on a similar motion being introduced by Lord Falconer in a House of Lords debate next week.

By a narrow margin - 52% to 44% - BMA members at their annual conference voted down proposals for lifting the threat of police investigations into those accompanying "a patient at an assisted death".

Doctors turned down, by a larger margin, another motion calling for legislation to allow patients who are "terminally ill and have mental capacity" to choose an assisted death. The BMA has switched position on assisted deaths several times but has supported the current legal status since 2006.

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