Update on the Assisted Suicide Bill in Holyrood

There has been another dangerous expansion of the McArthur Bill in Holyrood this week. The committee continues to reject important amendments and has decided to-

• Allow those with decades let to live to apply for a medically assisted death rejecting an amendment that only those with a six-month terminal illness prognosis could seek assisted suicide
• Include people with Down’s Syndrome, depression, anxiety disorders, in receipt of disability or sickness benefits, loneliness, low-income, poor housing or mental health conditions to seek an assisted death
• Allow those with mental health, eating disorders, or feeling like a burden to seek an assisted death.
• Reject a proposal to safeguard applicants from “encouragement, suggestion, or imitation of discussion by a medical practitioner or other professional involved in that person’s care”.
• Refuse to raise the starting age for assisted death. 18 yr olds can seek an assisted death.

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