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Say NO to assisted suicide

Liam McArthur MSP is proposing a Bill in the Scottish Parliament to legalise assisted suicide. This will undermine the right to life and put vulnerable people at risk of coming under pressure to end their lives prematurely.

We believe assisted suicide should NOT be legalised in Scotland.

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We need to
improve how we
care for people,

not kill them
Liam McArthur has published his Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill in the Scottish Parliament.
 

It is vital to help  Scottish politicians learn of the dangers that have already been seen abroad.

MSPs must consider the unintended consequences

Vulnerable people will be put at risk

  • Any change in the law to allow assisted suicide  would place pressure on vulnerable people to end their lives for fear of being a financial, emotional or care burden upon others. This would especially affect people who are disabled, elderly, sick or depressed.

 

  • The pressure people will feel to end their lives if assisted suicide or euthanasia is legalised will be greatly accentuated at this time of economic flux with families and health budgets under pressure.

  • Elder abuse and neglect by families, carers and institutions is real and dangerous and this is why strong laws are necessary. Age UK reports that already in the UK, ‘almost half a million people aged over 65 will experience some form of abuse or neglect’ including physical, psychological and financial abuse.

  • If assisted suicide or euthanasia is legalised any ‘safeguards’ against abuse, such as limiting it to certain categories of people, are unlikely to work. Instead, once any so-called ‘right-to-die’ is established we will see incremental extension with pressure being applied to expand the categories of people who qualify for it.

It's not scaremongering when it's already happened somewhere else...

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Oppose assisted suicide
and euthanasia
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and euthanasia

Promoting Care, Opposing Euthanasia

Care Not Killing was set up in 2006 as an alliance of individuals and organisations which brings together disability and human rights groups, healthcare providers, and faith-based bodies, with the aims of promoting more and better palliative care; ensuring that existing laws against euthanasia and assisted suicide are not weakened or repealed; and helping the public to understand the consequences of any further weakening of the law.

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