Put Safety First, over a “deeply flawed” concept of choice, say public
84% say medical professionals should be barred from initiating conversations about assisted suicide.
March 14, 2026
84% say medical professionals should be barred from initiating conversations about assisted suicide.
The NHS is too stretched and under-funded to introduce assisted suicide safely.
Campaigners opposed to Scotland’s proposed assisted suicide law have expressed concerns after a raft of proposals to make the Bill safer and protect the vulnerable were
Heavy criticisms of the assisted suicide Bill going through the Scottish Parliament have been made by MSPs scrutinising the proposed law. Worried politicians have
Scotland’s assisted suicide Bill is “spiraling out of control”, campaigners claim, after MSPs rejected key safeguards for young and vulnerable people and those living in poverty, during a Holyrood committee meeting.
MSPs have refused to limit assisted suicide to people genuinely close to death – meaning those with decades left to live could be considered under
The majority at Westminster was slashed from 55 at second reading to just 23 on the latest vote – and Scotland requires many fewer MSPs to switch.
MSPs should not sanction the progress of this Bill which is not fit for purpose.
… with massive opposition from Scots aged 18-24, new poll finds
CNK criticises ‘flawed’ process which exceed Holyrood powers & are reserved to Westminster
“This Bill is much too important to have any shadows of doubt hanging over the work of the scrutinising committee… Five members of that committee added their names in support of the proposal for the Bill.”
The language of legislation is everything. McArthur claims it’s a “tight” bill with strong safeguards when in fact it’s a wide bill that lets doctors and nurse practitioners kill disabled people who are not terminally ill.