Ms. Margo Macdonald MSP’s Assisted Dying Proposals, Scotland With the imminent publication of Ms. Margo MacDonald MSP’s response to her consultation on the legalisation of Assisted Dying, the Scottish Council on Human Bioethics (SCHB) indicated, that while it had a lot of sympathy for persons in difficult cases, euthanasia and assisted suicide were both unnecessary and dangerous for Scottish society.
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