How the assisted dying bill could unleash male violence

Kim Leadbeater is piloting the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill through parliament.

Practically, however, women’s interests have been disregarded in this legislation.

It is a law that has been written as though male violence and coercive control do not exist.

Supporters of assisted dying often make the argument that legalising it would “remove the need for terminally ill individuals to “take matters into their own hands”.

The Terminally Ill Adults Bill has been a rush job in the words of one former Labour adviser.

Labour risks turning the healthcare system into an executioner for those most in need of protection.

Not one of 50 people who gave oral evidence to the Public Bill Committee was an expert in male violence or coercive control.