Swinney will not support assisted dying bill

First Minister John Swinney has said helium volition not enactment a measure which would let assisted dying connected Scotland.

Legislation to let assisted dying is being enactment guardant astatine the Scottish Parliament by the Liberal Democrat MSP Liam McArthur.

If the measure passed it would let a diligent to petition aesculapian assistance to extremity their life, but lone if they had a terminal unwellness and had been ruled mentally acceptable to marque the determination by 2 doctors.

MSPs are scheduled to ballot connected the wide principles of McArthur's measure astatine Holyrood connected 13 May. A Holyrood committee which is scrutinising the authorities has said members should ballot astatine the archetypal signifier of the process arsenic a "matter of conscience".

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