Doctors to be allowed to initiate assisted suicide discussions with patients under proposed new law The Scottish Parliament’s Health, Social Care and Sport Committee met on Tuesday to consider further amendments to the Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) ...
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Holyrood Assisted Suicide Bill: Hospices and Care Homes at Risk as MSPs Reject more Safeguards The Scottish Parliament’s Health, Social Care and Sport Committee has voted down a series of proposed amendments aimed at strengthening safeguards in the controversial Assisted ...
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Vulnerable at Risk: MSPs Reject Key Amendments to Assisted Suicide Bill Committee votes down key proposals that would protect people with years to live, disabled people, those with intellectual disabilities, and those with eating disorders Holyrood’s Health and Sport Committee ...
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The UK is Destroying Itself in the Name of ‘Freedom’ John Paul II, in his encyclical, Evangelium Vitae (Gospel of Life), predicted that the weak and vulnerable would be sacrificed in the pursuit of greater autonomy for the strong and ...
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Deep Disappointment as Assisted Suicide Bill Passes First Hurdle in Holyrood The Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill has passed its first test in the Scottish Parliament. Following several hours of debate in Holyrood, the Bill, which could ...
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Scotland’s First Minister to Vote Against Assisted Suicide John Swinney, Scotland’s First Minister, has confirmed that he will vote against a proposal to legalise assisted suicide. Speaking to journalists on Thursday, Mr Swinney said that he would vote against Liam ...
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Bishops of Scotland Invite Catholics to Pray that Assisted Suicide Bill will be Defeated The Bishops of Scotland have written to the Catholic community of Scotland, inviting them to a Day of Prayer for life and to reject proposals to ...
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Pam Duncan-Glancy, an MSP for Glasgow Region, and the first permanent wheelchair user in the Scottish Parliament, said that “disabled people are under-represented in chambers”.
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Pictured (left to right): Anthony Horan, Director of the Catholic Parliamentary Office; Bob Doris MSP, SNP member for Maryhill and Springburn; James Bundy, Conservative Councillor, Falkirk Council; Sue Webber, Conservative member for Lothian Region, Archbishop Leo Cushley, Archbishop of St ...
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The Bishops’ Conference of Scotland has strongly opposed the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, urging the UK Government to abandon it in a submission to the Public Bill Committee.
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