Scottish assisted dying bill passes first vote

A measure to legalise assisted dying successful Scotland has passed an archetypal ballot astatine Holyrood.

The proposals would let terminally-ill, mentally competent adults to question aesculapian assistance to extremity their lives.

A ballot connected the bill's wide principles passed by 70 votes to 56.

It would request to wide 2 much phases of parliamentary scrutiny earlier it could go law.

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