A bill to allow terminally-ill adults to end their lives has passed an initial vote at Holyrood.

The Scottish Parliament has given its initial backing to legislation to legalise assisted dying. A bill tabled by Liberal ...

The general principles of Scotland's Assisted Dying Bill is backed by 70 MSPs and will now go on to be scrutinised further.

For the third time in Scottish parliamentary history, MSPs are to vote on plans to legalise assisted dying. The ballot, which would allow terminally-ill adults to seek medical help to end their lives, ...

An assisted dying agenda is completely incompatible with a system where palliative care is so underfunded and undervalued.

Scottish Parliament voted last week to support the principle of assisted dying but opponents say Bill will not pass ...

McArthur’s bill is now the furthest assisted dying legislation has ever gotten in Scotland, but it still has two more stages of amendment, scrutiny, and debate to go before MSPs will have a final vote ...

In the meantime, Scotland’s Assisted Dying Bill champion, Scottish Lib Dem MSP Liam McArthur, said he’ll continue to have ...

Coercion was on everyone’s minds in Holyrood’s dramatic debate on assisted dying earlier this month. Liam McArthur’s Assisted Dying Bill offers terminally ill, mentally competent Scots the option to ...

Doctor Geri Hignett protests against a change in the law on assisted dying outside the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh, ...

Legislation to allow terminally ill people in Scotland to take their own life is being put forward by the Liberal Democrat ...

Assisted dying passed the first hurdle to becoming legal in France for certain terminally ill citizens nearing the end of ...