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Lloyd Jones

REVEALED: Assisted dying clause gagging doctors set to be debated | Rare Historical Photos

Criticism grows over a bill that only people with a year or less to live could use assisted dying. (Dan Himbrechts/AAP PHOTOS)

A proposed gag on doctors raising voluntary assisted dying with patients is a safeguard against terminally ill people being coerced into ending their lives, a territory's chief legal officer says.

Northern Territory Attorney-General Marie-Clare Boothby introduced the Rights of the Terminally Ill bill to parliament for a second reading on Tuesday.

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