THE HOUSE OF LORDS
EUTHANASIA BILL REJECTED (British Official Wirelessi RUGBY, Dec. 1. (Received Dec. 2, at 5.5 p.m.) In the House of Lords Lord Ponsonby moved the second reading of the Voluntary Euthanasia Bill to legalise under certain conditions the administration of euthanasia to persons suffering from illness of a fatal or incurable charactei involving severe pain The Bill was spon sored by the late Lord Moynihan, the famous surgeon, and was opposed by two medical members of the'Upper House. Lords Dawson of Penn and Horder, and by the Archbishop of Canterbury. The Bill was rejected by 35 votes to 14.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23054, 3 December 1936, Page 9
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