Campaigners say that new laws to introduce assisted dying in Scotland will be presented to MSPs, once more, after next year’s May election.
Two previous attempts to introduce assisted dying in Scotland have already been rejected, in 2010 and 2015.
The Cross Party Group: End of Life Choices, consisting of pro-assisted suicide MSPs at Holyrood, is pushing for another attempt to introduce legislation similar to laws in countries such as the Netherlands.
Dr Gordon Macdonald, the chief executive of Care Not Killing, has condemned this latest move by “ideological pro-killing campaigners” whose proposed laws will “remove universal protections and send out a message that the lives of the terminally ill and disabled people are less worthy of protection than other”.
SPUC comment
A SPUC spokesperson said: “The attempt to introduce assisted dying in Scotland is part of a broader trend around the globe, in such countries as New Zealand, for instance, marking a worrying trend that cheapens life and increasingly views death as the default response to suffering.
“The very presence of such laws would put the ill, infirm and disabled under increasing pressure to end their lives.
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