{"id":3946,"date":"2014-06-06T16:09:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T14:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.dignitas.bertastrasse1.ch\/news\/dignitas-news-en-298\/"},"modified":"2025-06-18T10:46:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T08:46:57","slug":"scotland-revised-bill-proposal-margo-macdonald","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/en\/news\/scotland-revised-bill-proposal-margo-macdonald\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotland: revised proposal for an assisted dying bill by Margo MacDonald"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">14 November 2013 \u2013 6 June 2014<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In Scotland, parliament member Margo MacDonald presented a revised proposal for an \u201eAssisted Suicide (Scotland) Bill&#8221;, to make it lawful, in certain circumstances, to assist another to commit suicide; and for connected purposes.<br \/>\nA Commitee called for written evidence. Dignitas has submitted a response.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottish.parliament.uk\/parliamentarybusiness\/Bills\/69604.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Details of the Bill <span style=\"color: #333333;\">(Link to the website of the Scottish Parliament)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/stories\/pdf\/diginpublic\/referat-asbill-edinburgh-14112013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Speech of DIGNITAS at the press launch in Edinburgh: <span style=\"color: #333333;\">(PDF)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifedeathchoice.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Campaign website <span style=\"color: #333333;\">(Link)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/stories\/pdf\/diginpublic\/stellungnahme-respone-s-dignitas-consultation-assisted-suicide-scotland-bill-05062014.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Response\/submission (short version) by DIGNITAS <span style=\"color: #333333;\">(PDF)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/stories\/pdf\/diginpublic\/stellungnahme-respone-f-dignitas-consultation-assisted-suicide-scotland-bill-05062014.pdf\">Response\/submission (full version) by DIGNITAS <span style=\"color: #333333;\">(PDF)<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>14 November 2013 \u2013 6 June 2014 In Scotland, parliament member Margo MacDonald presented a revised proposal for an \u201eAssisted Suicide (Scotland) Bill&#8221;, to make it lawful, in certain circumstances, to assist another to commit suicide; and for connected purposes. A Commitee called for written evidence. Dignitas has submitted a response. Details of the Bill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","tags":[550],"class_list":["post-3946","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","tag-scotland"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/3946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}