UK lawmakers on Friday voted down legislation to allow terminally ill adults in England and Wales to choose to end their lives. The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill was opposed by 286 members of Parliament, while 270 voted for it, the AP reports. On two previous occasions in 2024 and 2025, the elected House of Commons had backed the bill, but it didn’t become law because it was effectively filibustered by unelected lawmakers in the revising House of Lords chamber. The bill had proposed allowing adults in England and Wales with fewer than six months to live to
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