Former prime minister Theresa May said she does not believe the assisted dying Bill has the safeguards to prevent people from being pressured to end their lives.Baroness May of Maidenhead told the chamber: "I oppose this Bill and I wish to set out my main reasons."First, I do not believe that the safeguards in this Bill will prevent people from being pressurised to end their lives, sometimes for the benefit of others."I also worry that, as we have seen in countries where there is such a law, tha

Former prime minister Theresa May said she does not believe the assisted dying Bill has the safeguards to prevent people from being pressured to end their lives.Baroness May of Maidenhead told the chamber: "I oppose this Bill and I wish to set out my main reasons."First, I do not believe that the safeguards in this Bill will prevent people from being pressurised to end their lives, sometimes for the benefit of others."I also worry that, as we have seen in countries where there is such a law, that people will feel that they must end their lives simply because they feel they are a burden on others."I worry about the impact it will have on people with disabilities, with chronic illness, with mental health problems, because there is a risk that legalising assisted dying reinforces the dangerous notion that some lives are less worth living than others, and again as we have seen in other countries, once a law like this is passed, the pressure then grows to extend the scope of it."