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Assisted Suicide Bill on Knifedge in Scotland

The effort to push state-sanctioned murder on Scotland is now in serious trouble. The whole plot now sits on a knife-edge. he Leader of the Scottish Conservative Party has dropped his support of the Scottish assisted suicide Bill, vowing that he will now vote against it as “the risks are too great”.

Russell Findlay MSP previously supported the Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill, which, as written, would legalise assisted suicide for adults resident in Scotland with no prognosis requirement specified; however, he now opposes the Bill due to numerous concerns with it.

This now means that the leaders of the three largest parties in Holyrood are opposed to the assisted suicide Bill. 

Findlay is the third MSP who supported the Bill last year to now oppose it, meaning that if only four more MSPs change their minds and commit to voting against the Bill, it will fail. 

Findlay said that he changed his mind about the Bill due to “numerous” concerns about the Bill that have not been addressed.

He stated that one of the key concerns he has with the Bill is “the real risk that people could be coerced into ending their own lives”. 

“There are already cases in which unscrupulous relatives, or ‘trusted’ medical or legal professionals, exploit elderly people for financial gain”, he said, adding, “And even without any coercion from others, some elderly people may feel pressured to end their lives because they think they have become a ‘burden’ on loved ones”.

Findlay said that he was also concerned that it would be “inevitable” that the eligibility criteria for assisted suicide would expand following legal challenges. 

“We have seen examples of this ‘slippery slope’ in other jurisdictions, and I would be deeply uncomfortable at being responsible for legislation that might end up mutating beyond its original remit to, for example, allowing someone with a mental health condition to compel the state to prematurely end their life”, he said.

Who's Paying for Assisted Suicide Propaganda?

Who is paying for the wave of assisted suicide propaganda which has hit Scotland in recent days?

The well-funded assisted suicide pressure group Dignity in Dying has taken out full front-page adverts in multiple Scottish national newspapers, lobbying for the Scottish assisted suicide Bill, prompting a major backlash, amidst concerns that the adverts promote and sanitise suicide.

The adverts, which appeared as the front page of The Herald, The Scotsman, and The Metro, caricature suicide as a “choice”, and do not even make it clear that they relate only to suicide for the terminally ill, prompting criticisms that they glamorise suicide more widely. 

Consultant psychiatrist and former Chair of the Royal College of Psychiatrists Eating Disorder Faculty, Agnes Ayton, simply asked “Why is this allowed?”

Dr Cajetan Skowronski, a geriatric and palliative care doctor, also criticised these adverts, urging people in Scotland to “Say no to NHS suicide”.

Attorney Erwan Le Morhedec said that the amount of money behind the pro-assisted suicide lobby enabling these adverts was “staggering”, arguing that it amounted to “pro-euthanasia propaganda”.

Who is paying for it all, given that a clearly majority of Scots are, at the very least, sceptical about the proposals?

There are three main most likely culprits: The Open Society Foundation, now run by George Soros' son Jonathan; Big Pharma and aobort-for-profit businesses, both of which are constantly looking for new 'profit centres', and, third, the government/civil service, pushing to reduce the welfare bill by encouraging the elderly and the sick to commit suicide.