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Hello, I'm Sean Curran, and this is yesterday in Parliament from BBC Radio 4.

Supporters of the proposed law, which would legalise assisted dying in England and Wales,

gathered outside Parliament on Friday the 20th of March.

Inside, members of the House of Lords

spent another day pouring over the details in the bill. On Tuesday, members of the Scottish Parliament

rejected a bill to legalise assisted dying, as peers prepared for another day debating possible

changes to the terminally ill adults,

end-of-life bill, a crossbench or independent peer, Lady Murphy, a psychiatrist,

sounded positively jealous. Isn't it lovely that the Scots could make a vote? Because we will not

have the opportunity to make a vote. because people going on and on and on.

More than a thousand amendments have been proposed to the bill and peers have spent 12 days looking

at the details. Lady Murphy said they were wasting time and would never get to the point

where they took a decision. When a Conservative former Cabinet Minister, Lord Harper,

blamed the slow progress on peers not getting answers to their questions,

he was challenged by the lawyer and cross-bench peer Lord Panic,

who suggested opponents of the bill didn't want to reach the next stage of the parliamentary process

when there'd be votes on possible amendments.

I know very well why the noble lord is reluctant for us to get to report stage.

It's because the result would be exactly what happened on Wednesday night

when we debated and decided the decriminalisation

of for women who had late-term abortions. There would be lots of talk, there would be passionate speeches,

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