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New health minister supports right to die as BHA applies to intervene in Nicklinson case

New Under-Secretary of State for Health Anna Soubry has announced her support for people having a right to die in their home, while new Minister of State for Care Services Norman Lamb has also said that reform should be looked at. The news comes as the British Humanist Association (BHA) has announced that it is applying to intervene in an appeal to Tony Nicklinson’s right-to-die case,

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BHA: New poll shows strong public support for assisted dying

Today – the day that Tony Nicklinson would have been lodging his appeal against the High Court’s decision that he was not allowed to have a doctor lawfully end his life – new research has been published showing massive public support for the change in the law he was pursuing to be made.