A new report assessing the End of Life Choice Bill says with strict controls the law would not affect human rights to life.
David Seymour, the MP behind the Bill, told Susie Ferguson the report debunks claims from critics that the Bill was poorly drafted.
"Opponents will now need to explain why they would not allow dying people, in extreme suffering, to have a choice about how and when they die - rather than hiding behind those straw men.
"The report says that the eligibility criteria are narrow enough, and the safeguards strict enough, that the bill will not cause wrongful deaths, and that assisted dying will be available only to the group the bill intends - incurably or terminally ill, and in unbearable suffering."
