Last week's defeat of assisted suicide in the Scottish Parliament has raised hopes that the deeply flawed bill currently grinding through the House of Lords will also be defeated.

This is all the more likely given the dozens of major medical bodies and organisations representing the most vulnerable in Scottish society also came out in opposition to the Bill.

This included the Royal Pharmaceutical Society in Scotland, the Royal College of Psychiatrists in Scotland, the Association of Palliative Medicine, Social Work Scotland, the Association of Palliative Care Social Workers, the Scottish Association of Social Work, and the British Islamic Medical Association.

They were joined by groups representing tens of thousands of people in Scotland including, a coalition of major disability groups, such as Inclusion Scotland, Disability Equality Scotland, Glasgow Centre for Inclusive Living, Glasgow Disability Alliance, Our Duty of Care, People First, Self Directed Support Scotland, Disabled People Against Cuts, Group for Autism, Insurance, Investment and Neurodiversity, LegaCare, We Thrive and Down’s Syndrome Research Foundation, who all came out in opposition to the Bill.

Alisdair Hungerford-Morgan, Chief Executive of Right To Life UK, said “This is a great victory for the most vulnerable in our society. They deserve protection and care, not a pathway to suicide. If this legislation had passed, countless vulnerable people would have been pressured or coerced into ending their lives”.

“A large number of MSPs from across the political spectrum came together to recognise the dangers this Bill posed and have rightly rejected it”.

“The question of assisted suicide has dominated the five-year term of the current Scottish Parliament. The issue is now settled for a generation”.

Local residents are horrified. More drug addicts in Scotland could inject illegal drugs without fear of arrest under plans to open a shooting gallery in Edinburgh.

The outcome of a consultation on the plans, set to begin in April, is expected to be submitted to the Scottish Government as part of a business proposal. The Spittal Street and Cowgate areas have been singled out as potential sites.

In addition to city councillors’ approval of the plans, the Edinburgh safer drug consumption facility cannot open without the Lord Advocate’s declaring the facility to be a ‘prosecution-free zone’.

Christine Laverty, Chief Officer of the Edinburgh Integration Joint Board, claimed that the Scottish Government would have to fully fund the centre due to financial constraints in the Edinburgh Alcohol and Drug Partnership’s budget.

But writing in The Herald, columnist John McLellan criticised the “principle of keeping people stupefied on drugs rather than getting them off”.

He stated that “until such times as there is a properly funded rehab programme, state-sponsored shooting galleries will be nothing more than a dangerous and expensive indulgence”.

Under the SNP’s new Alcohol and Drugs Strategic Plan, the Government has pledged ‘not to delay’ in opening more shooting galleries, as well as exploring other ‘harm reduction’ measures — such as distributing crack cocaine pipes to users for “safer inhalation”.

In Glasgow, The Thistle shooting gallery was used by 599 registered users with “over 8,300 injecting episodes” in its first full year of operation up to January 2026. The shooting gallery’s three-year pilot project is being funded by the Scottish Government at a cost of £2.3 million per annum to the taxpayer.

If anything positive can be derived from the proliferation of euthanasia in Canada, Alex Schadenberg says it’s that groups around the world are watching the number of medically assisted deaths spiral out of control there and taking action to prevent a similar fate in their countries.

Speaking at the annual Bringing America Back to Life Convention sponsored by Greater Cleveland Right to Life on March 13, the executive director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition pointed to Slovenia as an example of how individuals can make a difference in stopping unjust, anti-life laws.

Late last year, a referendum campaign initiated by a citizens’ group in Slovenia led to a euthanasia law being overturned on November 23 after it had been passed just five months earlier in July by the European country’s left-wing government.

“The most wonderful thing about what’s happening in Canada is lives in other places are being saved because of it,” said Schadenberg, who has led the 7,000-member Euthanasia Prevention Coalition since 1999 and has spoken and written extensively on the subject.

Schadenberg worked closely the Voice for the Children and the Family group in Slovenia on its signature campaign that enabled the referendum to be put before the country’s voters in a matter of months. To his surprise and many others, the nation’s euthanasia law was overturned with a 53.6 percent majority.

“It was impossible what they did,” Schadenberg said.

Pre-election polls indicated the referendum had only 30 percent backing, but Schadenberg said its backers remained firm on their talking points, and they were asked to pray.

“It’s amazing, and I think that’s a miracle,” Schadenberg said, “and it shows you that it is possible to convince people that killing people is bad idea.

British pro-life activist Isabel Vaughan-Spruce has been given a prestigious award by a Pennsylvania lawmaker.

On social media platform X, Vaughan-Spruce announced on Tuesday that GOP state Senator Doug Mastriano has awarded her the Pennsylvania Freedom Medal for her work defending the unborn.

“This is a huge honour and such a kind and thoughtful gesture. Thank you to all those who recognise, uphold and defend true liberty!” she said.

Mastriano drew attention to Vaughan-Spruce’s plight earlier this month.

“In the United Kingdom, Isabel Vaughan-Spruce was detained by police for standing outside an abortion facility. She wasn’t shouting. She wasn’t blocking anyone. She wasn’t holding signs,” Mastriano said on X. “She was simply praying quietly in her mind.”

Lord, have mercy! The House of Lords has voted to allow women in England and Wales to kill their unborn babies at any stage of pregnancy without sanction.

During a debate on the Crime and Policing Bill, Peers voted by 185 votes to 148 to reject Baroness Monckton’s amendment to remove Antonia Antoniazzi MP’s controversial Clause 208 which decriminalises abortion up to birth for the mother.

They also voted to reject an amendment by Baroness Stroud to reinstate in-person consultations with a doctor in order to receive abortion pills by 191 votes to 119. A return to such appointments, removed during lockdown, would have better protected against women taking the pills after the ten-week limit which they are designed for.

In a dignified speech, Baroness Monckton was clear: “Clause 208 would allow mothers to self-administer the abortion of their unborn child for any reason, at any stage of pregnancy, right up to full term. This is not just its consequential effect; it is its intended effect.

“The Clause states: ‘For the purposes of the law relating to abortion, no offence is committed by a woman acting in relation to her own pregnancy.’ The unborn child, in many cases more developed than those successfully looked after in premature baby units, would have no legal protection.”

She added that the clause “endangers women” by moving late-term abortions away from a clinical setting.

Abortion pills are not supposed to be used beyond very early stages, but the current ‘pills-by-post’ scheme allows women easy access to the drugs regardless of their child’s gestational age.

The Scottish Parliament rejected a bill that would have legalized euthanasia in the country, in a major victory for the right to life.

Scottish MSPs voted down the so-called “assisted dying” legislation on Tuesday night in a 69–57 vote, with one member abstaining. Twelve MSPs who supported the bill last May switched their votes over concerns about the risk of coercion, lack of oversight, and other problems, dooming the legislation.

The failed vote comes as a similar bill in the UK Parliament pushed by leftist PM Keir Starmer faces massive backlash and is also expected to fail.

Various prominent liberal MSPs opposed the euthanasia bill, including First Minister John Swinney, as well as Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar and deputy leader Jackie Baillie.

Baillie called Tuesday’s vote the most “consequential of the devolution era” and raised concerns about the lack of funding for palliative care.

Ruth Maguire, an SNP MSP diagnosed with cervical cancer, likewise advocated against the bill, saying it “frightens” her.

“My blood runs cold thinking about sitting in a room in hospital and having a doctor raise [assisted suicide] with me as we weigh up treatment options,” she said. “In voting against the bill I’m just choosing to vote for the inherent dignity of life and I urge colleagues to do the same.”

Scotland, a highly secularized country, would have been the first part of the UK to legalize assisted suicide.

The push for state-sanctioned murder in Scotland has hit a fresh hurdle. The professional bodies for psychiatrists and pharmacists in Scotland have separately announced their opposition to Liam McArthur’s assisted suicide Bill.

During last Friday’s debate in Holyrood, both The Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) and The Royal College of Psychiatrists in Scotland (RCPsychiS) released statements opposing the Bill, citing the removal of conscience protections among other concerns.

The Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults Bill, would allow those deemed to be terminally ill with less than six months to live to get help from a medic to kill themselves. MSPs are set to vote for the final time on the legislation tomorrow.

The letter to MSPs from the RCPsychiS stated that by failing to protect conscience, MSPs have “drastically weakened essential safeguards for psychiatrists and other healthcare professionals”.

It continued: “As a result, the Bill now poses unacceptable risks to the general public and the psychiatric workforce, meaning that we have no option but to oppose the Bill.”

The College explained: “Without explicit legal backing, psychiatrists are concerned that they may face pressure from colleagues or employers, or be placed in professionally contentious situations without adequate safeguards. This raises risks both for practitioners and for patients.”

Canada is soon set to reach a milestone unlike any other nation, as this year it is expected that over 100,000 Canadians will have died by state-sanctioned and promoted euthanasia.

The grim milestone comes 10 years after Canada’s euthanasia or “Medical Assistance in Dying” (“MAID”) program became legal, in 2016, under former Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

This means that, on average, about 45 Canadians die per day from euthanasia, and 16,499 people died due to the practice in 2024 alone.

Commentator and activist Kelsi Sheren, in a recent blog post, highlighted Canada’s euthanasia deaths, noting Canada is “about to kill its 100,000th citizen through Medical Assistance in Dying”.

Even some pro-abortionists are realising that DIY-abortions-by-post have got to stop. Pro-abortion Peer Baroness Davies of Devonport has explained why she backs the reintroduction of in-person consultations for abortions.

The former Olympic swimming silver medallist said she has co-sponsored a Crime and Policing Bill amendment by Baroness Stroud to end home DIY abortions in order to “protect women”.

The ‘pills-by-post’ scheme, which removed in-person consultations for women to receive abortion pills, was introduced during the Covid pandemic.

Writing in The Daily Telegraph, Lady Davies branded the pills-by-post scheme as an example of “powerful drugs being too casually dispensed to women by the state in the name of ideology, from which tragic consequences have already unfolded”.

She explained: “being pro-choice does not excuse jeopardising safety or allowing a ‘Wild West’ of abortion pills, where pills can too easily fall into the hands of abusers coercing abortions, traffickers covering up abuse or women whose pregnancies are approaching full term”.

The former Olympian added: “The practical effect of the scheme is that women at any stage of pregnancy can get hold of abortion pills by misleading abortion providers on the phone about their gestation, either mistakenly or deliberately as in the case of Carla Foster, who was sent abortion pills by BPAS after pretending to be seven weeks pregnant when actually around 33 weeks.”

She said: “Reintroducing in-person medical consultations for women seeking abortions is not about reducing access to abortion but ensuring safeguarding and best practice.”

Tuesday 17th March could see the crushing defeat of the Assisted Suicie threat in Scotland. That's when he final Stage 3 vote on the Scottish McArthur assisted suicide Bill at Holyrood is set to take place.

Scotland now stands at a crossroads – one that will decide how human life and the most vulnerable are treated for generations to come, in a similar way to what was faced six decades ago in 1967 when the Abortion Act was introduced.

Should Liam McArthur’s extreme assisted suicide Bill pass at this final vote on Tuesday 17 March, tens of thousands of vulnerable lives will be at risk in Scotland over the coming decades. 

This is what is at stake.

The Stage 3 vote on Tuesday 17 March is the final vote. 

There is a clear path to defeating this Bill at this final vote.

Following the Stage 1 vote, The Telegraph published a piece which revealed that more than 20 MSPs who initially voted for the Bill have indicated they could vote against it at the final vote at Stage 3.

If just seven of these MSPs switch their stance and vote against the Bill, it will be defeated at Stage 3.

Two MSPs have already publicly indicated that they will be changing their vote from supporting to opposing the Bill, so we now only have to move 5 more votes to ensure this Bill is defeated.

This means this really is winnable – but only if you and your family do everything in your power over these final two weeks to ensure it is defeated – and you don’t have to be based in Scotland to be able to help out.

TAKE ACTION – 10 EASY WAYS YOU CAN HELP ENSURE THE BILL IS DEFEATED

This is now the final fortnight of the powerful Support Not Suicide Scotland campaign to defeat this dangerous Bill.

The most important activity you can do during these two weeks is mobilise people you know in Scotland to contact their MSPs and ask them to vote NO on 17 March.
If you live in Scotland and haven’t already contacted your MSPs asking them to vote NO on Tuesday 17 March, please do that now. It takes about 30 seconds. Please click the button below to contact your local MSPs now, using our EasyAction tool:

Then, please consider spending every spare moment you have over these final 13 days mobilising friends and family in Scotland to contact their MSPs.

1. The easiest way is to share this page with friends and family in Scotland and ask them to take the same 30-second action today. If you can, please start by sending it to at least 10 people.

We have included 9 further actions you can take below to connect with your friends, family and local community to help get many more people mobilised:

1. Message people you know in Scotland individually on WhatsApp or via text and ask them to contact their MSPs (www.righttolife.org.uk/ScotlandFinalVote).
2. If you are based in Scotland, print off a large number of the leaflets we have linked to here and distribute them at your local church, community group or among friends.
3. Share the link above in groups on WhatsApp or Facebook groups you are part of that include people who live in Scotland. 
4. Post the campaign link above on social media channels such as Facebook and ask Scottish friends to take 30 seconds to act.
5. Encourage members of any Scottish community, volunteer or parent groups you are part of to contact their MSPs.
6. Encourage people in Scottish churches, mosques, synagogues, prayer groups or Bible study groups you are connected with to take action.
7. Ask any priests, imams, rabbis, pastors or church leaders you know in Scotland if they can share the link with members of their church or faith community this week and encourage people during the sermon or homily to contact their local MSPs.
8. If you are based in Scotland, write the link on a small note and share it with people you meet locally.
9. Message any Scottish contacts in work networks, alumni groups, or friendship circles and ask them to contact their MSPs.

Where possible, when taking the actions above, please encourage people not only to contact their local MSPs but also to contact at least three other people, asking them to contact their MSPs as well.