Streeting Orders Cost Review of Assisted Suicide

Health Secretary Wes Streeting has ordered a review into the costs of implementing state-run assisted suicide. Streeting, who has said he will vote against the Private Members’ Bill on assisted suicide later this month, also said that there was a “chilling slippery slope argument” if people felt obligated to end their lives in order to save money. Labour MP Kim Leadbeater published the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill on Tuesday, barely three weeks before it is due to be voted on on Nov. 29. The health secretary said that now the wording of the bill has been released, “I’ve asked my department to look at the costs that would be associated with providing a new service to enable assisted dying to go forward, because I’m very clear that regardless of my own personal position or my own vote, my department and the whole government will respect the will of Parliament if people vote for assisted dying.”...