{"id":6295,"date":"2012-01-23T15:52:54","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T14:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.dignitas.bertastrasse1.ch\/news\/in-scotland-parliament-member-margo-mac-donald-lodged-a-proposal-for-a-bill-the-assisted-suicide-scotland-bil-to-enable-a-competent-adult-with-a-terminal-illness-or-condition-to-reques\/"},"modified":"2012-01-23T15:52:54","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T14:52:54","slug":"in-scotland-parliament-member-margo-mac-donald-lodged-a-proposal-for-a-bill-the-assisted-suicide-scotland-bil-to-enable-a-competent-adult-with-a-terminal-illness-or-condition-to-reques","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/dev.dignitas.bertastrasse1.ch\/en\/news\/in-scotland-parliament-member-margo-mac-donald-lodged-a-proposal-for-a-bill-the-assisted-suicide-scotland-bil-to-enable-a-competent-adult-with-a-terminal-illness-or-condition-to-reques\/","title":{"rendered":"In Scotland, parliament member Margo Mac Donald lodged a proposal for a Bill, the \u201eAssisted Suicide (Scotland) Bil&#8221;, to enable a competent adult with a terminal illness or condition to request assistance to end their own life, and to decriminalise certain actions taken by others to provide such assistance."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In Scotland, parliament member Margo Mac Donald lodged a proposal for a Bill, the \u201eAssisted Suicide (Scotland) Bil&#8221;, to enable a competent adult with a terminal illness or condition to request assistance to end their own life, and to decriminalise certain actions taken by others to provide such assistance.<\/p>\n<p>23 January 2012 \/ 1 May 2012<\/p>\n<p>A consultation was held until 30 April 2012.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The proposed Bill includes elements of the practice of accompanied suicides in Switzerland as well as of the <a href=\"http:\/\/public.health.oregon.gov\/ProviderPartnerResources\/EvaluationResearch\/DeathwithDignityAct\/Pages\/index.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">\u201eDeath with Dignity Act\u201d of the US-State of Oregon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottish.parliament.uk\/parliamentarybusiness\/Bills\/46127.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Website of the Scottish Parliament with consultation document (Link)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.dignitas.bertastrasse1.ch\/images\/stories\/pdf\/diginpublic\/stellungnahme-respone-dignitas-consultation-assisted-suicide-scotland-bill-28042012.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Response\/submission of DIGNITAS to the consultation (PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Scotland, parliament member Margo Mac Donald lodged a proposal for a Bill, the \u201eAssisted Suicide (Scotland) Bil&#8221;, to enable a competent adult with a terminal illness or condition to request assistance to end their own life, and to decriminalise certain actions taken by others to provide such assistance. 23 January 2012 \/ 1 May [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-6295","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.dignitas.bertastrasse1.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/6295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.dignitas.bertastrasse1.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.dignitas.bertastrasse1.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.dignitas.bertastrasse1.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.dignitas.bertastrasse1.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}