The National By PA News Agency
Controversial legislation that would have made Scotland the first nation in the UK to back assisted dying has been defeated at Holyrood.
MSPs voted by 57 to 69, with one abstention, against a Bill that would have allowed terminally ill Scots to seek help to end their live – with opponents of the legislation hailing it as a “victory for the vulnerable”.
It came after an emotional debate at Holyrood where the MSP who had introduced the legislation, Liberal Democrat Liam McArthur, warned many of those who voted down his Bill would come to “regret deeply” their choice.
But he added this would not be felt “as deeply or as painfully as those dying Scots and their families who desperately need us to act with courage, compassion and urgency”.
The Liberal Democrat MSP had insisted the Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill – if it had been passed – would have been the “most heavily safeguarded assisted dying law anywhere in the world”.
But Dr Gordon Macdonald, chief executive of the Care Not Killing campaign group, said: “We are relieved that MSPs have decided not to back this legislation.
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