Wednesday, November 05, 2008

Scotland will not back legal assisted suicide

http://www.christian.org.uk/news/20081104/sturgeon-wont-back-legal-assisted-suicide/

[The Christian Institute] 5 Nov 2008--Scotland’s health secretary, Nicola Sturgeon, has indicated that the Government will not back attempts to change the law on assisted suicide.

Speaking after MSP Margo MacDonald said she would launch an attempt to make the practice legal in Scotland, Miss Sturgeon said she was “not persuaded” that the law should be changed.

She told the BBC that the system could be abused, and says she is “not convinced we could put in place sufficient safeguards”.

There are fears that legalising assisted suicide would destroy patient trust and put vulnerable people under real or imagined pressure to end their lives if they felt they had become a burden.

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