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The Scottish Parliament has voted in favour of a bill to legalise assisted dying.
Separate bills which would let terminally ill people end their life are being considered at Westminster and in Scotland.
To Holyrood, where parliamentarians will tomorrow vote on Scotland’s assisted dying bill. Scottish Liberal Democrat Liam ...
What is the Assisted Dying Bill? Controversial new law backed by Scottish MPs - Scottish parliament held its third vote over ...
The Catholic Church, Free Church, Scottish Association of Mosques, and Baptist Union all oppose the legislation.
As MSPs prepare to vote on the Assisted Dying Bill, dementia expert Professor June Andrews and Liam McArthur MSP offer ...
The Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill, proposed by Scottish Lib Dem MSP Liam McArthur, will go before ...
Leadbeater says hers is the only bill in the world with ‘three layers of scrutiny’ in the form of sign-off by two doctors and a High Court judge, and would offer the ‘safest choice’ for mentally ...
She said the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill would make it illegal for someone to persuade a person through ...
Police chiefs are being urged to allow an external body to review the death of a young dog after previously giving the task to the officer who permitted her to be put down. Two and a half year old ...
Health Secretary Neil Gray will abstain in the first vote on the assisted dying Bill to maintain the Scottish Government’s ...
The Deputy First Minister said she does not think ‘any amount of legal drafting can prevent people feeling pressured to die’.