Scottish euthanasia
Margo MacDonald MSP has a bill before the Scottish Parliament in 2010 that seeks to legalise euthanasia in Scotland. These pages contain information about campaigns in Scotland and euthanasia in general.
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Submission from CMF (Scotland) to Margo MacDonald MSP's Consultation Document: The Proposed End of Life Choices (Scotland) Bill - 9/3/2009
Introduction - The Christian Medical Fellowship (CMF) is an interdenominational organisation in the UK with some 4,500 doctor members and around 1,000 medical student members. Of these, 450 doctors and 96 students are members in Scotland. All members are Christians who desire their professional and personal lives to be governed by the Christian...Submission from CMF Scotland to the Scottish Parliament on Jeremy Purvis' 'Dying with Dignity' Consultation Paper - 4/4/2005
Introduction - The Christian Medical Fellowship (CMF) is an interdenominational organisation with more than 4,500 members. We have over 450 Doctor and 110 student members in Scotland. The membership comprises British doctors who are Christians and who desire their professional and personal lives to be governed by the Christian faith as revealed in...Four reasons derived from respect for autonomy why euthanasia should not be legalised: -
1) Following the patient's autonomy impacts that of the doctor - It is self evident that where a patient's autonomy is followed to the extent of their receiving a prescription for lethal medication or being put to death at the end of a needle, the autonomy of the doctor is compromised. The obvious riposte is: So what? There...
File 22 (2003) - Euthanasia (CMF files)
Highly publicised cases of terminally ill patients asking doctors to help them die have kept euthanasia in the news. It is easy to feel sympathy for people with serious illnesses, and we may wonder how we would cope in their position and think that we would want euthanasia ourselves. However we...
File 9 (2000) - Physician-assisted suicide (CMF files)
Every time that UK politicians have considered euthanasia, they have concluded that it is wrong and that it would be unhelpful to make it legal within our society. Some people are now suggesting that we consider physician-assisted suicide (PAS). However, although some doctors say that it 'feels'...