Scotland's Deputy First Minister to vote against assisted suicide
MPs, Peers and Disability activists, including actress Liz Carr and Dame Tanni Grey Thompson outside the Houses of Parliament, Westminster, to insist the voices of disabled concerned about assisted dying are considered, March 24, 2025
SCOTTISH National Party’s Deputy First Minister Kate Forbes has said she will vote against assisted suicide proposals at Holyrood on Tuesday, insisting that no “amount of legal drafting can prevent people feeling pressured to die.”
Ms Forbes will join First Minister John Swinney, as well as former SNP leader Humza Yousaf and present Labour leader Anas Sarwar, in voting against the Lib Dem MSP Liam MacArthur’s Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill.
Speaking on BBC Radio Scotland’s Good Morning Scotland programme today, she warned: “I think it is impossible to provide safeguards that will sufficiently avoid pressure being felt by patients who have received a terminal diagnosis.
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