Scottish legislators voted on Tuesday in favor of a bill that would legalize assisted dying, the first step of a long process to legislation.
The law is trying to allow terminally ill people to ask for medical assistance to end their lives, with the final vote by the expected end of this year.
After five hours of emotionally charged debate, 70 members of the Scottish Parliament (SME) voted to move the bill forward, while 56 opposed it and one abstained.
“This is a significant moment for Scotland,” said the author of the law, the liberal Democrat MSP Liam McArthur.
The bill “can offer this compassionate choice for a small number of terminally ill scots who need it,” he added.
Guarantees established: The Rule
According to the current proposal, assisted dying would be granted to incurably ill patients after two doctors consider them mentally competent in decision -making.
While political parties did not represent the instructions to their members before Tuesday’s vote, Scottish Prime Minister John Swinney said he would vote.
Ahead of ahead
Legislators will now be able to propose changes to the original text.
The Scottish parliament previously rejected two accounts for assisted dying in 2010 and 2015.
Similarly, MPs in England and Wales approved in November legislation in the first reading to provide assisted dying for some terminally ill patients.
Isle of Man becomes the first to approve the law
At the end of March, the first British territory passed the assisted dying law of the island, the self -governing British addiction lying between England and Ireland.
The bill still needing Royal Assennt allows cure adults to live with less than a year and who have ended their lives on the island’s residents for five years.
Auxiliary suicide is illegal in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and currently carries a maximum imprisonment of 14 years.
In Scotland, anyone who helps someone to die for voluntary murder can be.
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