Right to die Bill opposed
HUNDREDS of Scots have lodged objections at Holyrood to a controversial bid to legalise assisted suicide in the country.
People as young as 16 would be allowed to kill themselves at special suicide clinics under the plans put forward by Independent MSP Margo MacDonald.
Ms MacDonald, who has incurable Parkinson's disease, estimates her Bill would help 55 Scots a year to die.
A public consultation, published yesterday, revealed that 86 per cent of the 601 respondents were against the right-to-die laws.
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