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Live coverage from the House of Commons as MPs get their first chance to debate and vote on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill.

Some of the testimony that we'll hear during the debate could be distressing.

The proposed law would give terminally ill people in England and Wales the right to choose to end their life. A separate bill is under discussion in Scotland.

If MPs vote in favour of assisted dying, it could lead to a significant change to society in the UK, on a par with reforms around the death penalty, divorce, abortion and gay marriage.

MPs last voted on this deeply sensitive issue nearly a decade ago, when they comprehensively rejected the idea. But it is hard to predict how a House of Commons, filled with many first-time MPs and given a free vote on the matter, will approach such a significant debate.

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