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'Cowardly': Campaigner Maryan Street slams euthanasia inquiry

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Newstalk ZB Staff,
Publish Date
Thu, 3 Aug 2017, 9:00AM
Maryan Street lodged the petition while a Labour MP. Photo / Francis Cook.

'Cowardly': Campaigner Maryan Street slams euthanasia inquiry

Author
Newstalk ZB Staff,
Publish Date
Thu, 3 Aug 2017, 9:00AM

Backers of voluntary euthanasia say MPs debating the issue haven't done well enough.

There is continuing condemnation of the results of a two-year inquiry by Parliament's Health Select Committee. It is being criticised for having no strong recommendations.

SEE ALSO: David Seymour: Assisted dying report disappointing

Maryan Street lodged the petition while a Labour MP. She told Mike Hosking it's a "cowardly", skewed report.

"I think it was slanted, certainly, and I think the MPs did not weigh sufficiently some of the professional evidence they were given, the clinical evidence they were given."

"Even more than that, they ignored the passionate pleas of people who came to give their own stories to them in select committee, some of them who were terminally ill themselves."

Street said the report should have been far more bold.

SEE ALSO: Matt Vickers: Euthanasia inquiry has dispelled myths

LISTEN TO THE FULL INTERVIEW WITH MARYAN STREET ABOVE

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