Doctors oppose legal protection for assisted suicide relatives

BMA conference rejects bid to change law on prosecuting relatives who accompany patients to suicide clinics Doctors today rejected calls to exempt from criminal prosecution relatives and friends who accompany sick or terminally ill patients to assisted suicide clinics. The decision by the British Medical Association to oppose any change in the law is likely to have a significant influence on a similar motion being introduced by Lord Falconer in a House of Lords debate next week. By a narrow margin...