The British parliament rejected the Euthanasia Law

The UK parliament rejected the bill, which granted doctors the right in some cases to conduct euthanasia to patients, BBC reports.

At the vote in the House of Commons, 118 members of the parliament voted for the bill, 330 voted against. The last time the issue of euthanasia was made to discuss parliament in 1997. The current bill was submitted by Labor Rob Marris.

If the law had been adopted, he would allow doctors in England and Wales to carry out euthanasia, prescribing a fatal dose of medicine by his will.

The fulfillment of the patient’s decision on suicide would require the presence of two independent doctors. To go to a similar step, according to the bill, would be allowed only to deadly ill people.

In anticipation of the debatov against the law, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby spoke out against the law.

The day before, the law legalizing euthanasia was adopted in California.