Moves by Lord Falconer and his supporters in the House of Lords to allow terminally ill people to ask doctors to help them kill themselves came closer to being made law last week, if the press is to be believed. But all is not what it seems, as a prominent Catholic crossbencher explains MANY MEDIA reports are heralding the latest hurdle cleared in the Upper House by Lord Falconer’s Assisted Dying Bill in its parliamentary obstacle race to become law. But it is worth considering how peers appeared to support the move when opinion in the House of Lords is fairly evenly divided between those supporting it and those, like myself, opposing it.It is also worthwhile revisiting the issues thrown up both in the debate in the chamber on Friday last week and when the private member’s bi