Voices that oppose the assisted dying bill aren’t ‘noise’. They are vital scrutiny | Sonia Sodha

Kim Leadbeater brought forward the bill to legalise assisted dying.

Legalising the prescription of lethal drugs to terminally ill people raises the spectre of vulnerable people being wrongfully subjected to an assisted death with state assistance.

It is critical that the bill's proponents engage constructively with the doctors, psychiatrists, social workers, lawyers and domestic abuse experts who have this concern.

The bill’s proponents believe against the evidence that this is relatively easy.

Opponents believe people who are vulnerable through mental illness, abuse and poverty will inevitably be caught up in it.

Supporters have tried to stop critics using the term suicide’, with Kit Malthouse MP trying to redefine it as a “healthy person taking their own life”.