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 Scottish parliament voted on Tuesday in favour of a bill that would allow people living in Scotland with a terminal ...

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

This will be the third time in Scottish parliamentary history that MSPs will vote on plans to legalise assisted dying. The ...

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Campaigners hailed a "watershed" moment in the history of Scottish devolution and praised MSPs for "listening to dying people ...

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

MSP Liam McArthur, who brought forward the bill, says terminally ill Scots and their families are "desperate to see the law ...

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MSPs will today vote on legislation that would allow eligible terminally ill adults in Scotland to lawfully end their life.