The Select Committee hearing evidence about the Terminally Ill Adults Bill met again last week. Again, the expert witnesses drew out multiple problems with the Bill. Here are some highlights.
Patrick Harvie MSP, has proposed what critics describe as “totalitarian” plans to introduce abortion clinic-style buffer zones around locations where assisted suicide could take place.
A coalition of charities and campaign groups have launched a new national initiative calling for the complete decriminalisation of abortion in Scotland.
A grieving mother has spoken of her anguish after being left alone to deliver her premature baby, who died three months later, and says she fears she will never receive the answers she needs.
The waiting period was presented during the referendum campaign as a key restriction designed to balance access to abortion with protections for unborn children.
Across Europe, the new movement to codify abortion is often framed as a progressive milestone, yet it only seems to have closed down meaningful discussion.