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MSPs standing for re-election in 2026

Relief as McArthur Bill rejected 69-57 at Holyrood

McArthur Bill “spiralling out of control”

McArthur Bill Committee refuses to limit eligibility to those close to death

Church of Scotland General Assembly rejects neutrality

CNK responds to McArthur Bill Stage One vote

Holyrood bill committee partial before it starts

Opponents of assisted suicide have expressed concerns that MSPs on the Holyrood committee which will scrutinise a new Bill have already signed up to support the legislation.

Press Release: Broad Opposition to Scottish Bill

‘Criticism has come from a broad cross-section of society ranging from the medical community and health care professionals to disability and human rights groups and numerous faith groups.’

Prue’s Holyrood visit prompts warning over bill

Press release: “Put simply, it’s impossible to have a safe system of medicalised killing and MSPs should reject” assisted suicide proposals.

Caution urged as MSPs hear from Canadian doctor

Press release: medical experts campaigning against Liam McArthur's Holyrood bill express their concerns ahead of a meeting between Dr James Downar and MSPs.

Press release: FM’s PAS opposition hardens

Assisted suicide: campaigners against bill welcome hardening opposition from first minister

Scottish consultation summary published

Care Not Killing responds in the media as Liam McArthur prepares to publish his assisted suicide bill “in the near future”

WATCH: peer and professor’s warnings to MSPs

As Scotland continues to await the report on the McArthur Bill consultation, Baroness (Tanni) Grey-Thompson and Professor Marie Fallon delivered timely warnings to MSPs during a Care Not Killing-Not Dead Yet webinar on 8 March.

A risk inherent in the Assisted Dying Bill

Our CEO writes in the Herald (11 January 2022) concerning reasons for opposition to Liam McArthur's proposed Holyrood bill

CNK and ODOC respond to Scottish bill

Read the joint submission of Care Not Killing and Our Duty of Care to the Scottish Parliament consultation concerning a proposed assisted suicide bill.

WATCH: experts’ warnings to MSPs

Watch Dutch ethicist and former euthanasia regulator Prof Theo Boer; Canadian palliative care physician Dr Leonie Herx; and academic and disability rights advocate Dr Miro Griffiths address our 23 November seminar for MSPs, co-hosted with Not Dead Yet.

Scottish assisted suicide consultation guide

Your responses are invited to a consultation document on assisted suicide for Scotland ahead of a 22 December deadline

Holyrood Election 2021: Policies

The 2021 Scottish Elections have seen pledges on both palliative care and assisted suicide – and campaigners have made clear their intent to press the latter in the new Parliament.
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