Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition
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| Liz Carr & Pam Duncan-Glancy |
The rally opposing assisted suicide featured actress Liz Carr and Scottish Labour MSP Pam Duncan-Glancy.
Paton reported that Silent Witness star Liz Carr told campaigners outside the Scottish Parliament that:
“I am so fed up of having to answer strangers’ questions, even in this day and age, who think that being us must be the worst thing imaginable,” she said to campaigners, which included a number of disabled people.
“That having pain, having difficulty with everyday activities, must mean that it would be better if we were dead – that is not the case.”
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“But it also has a definition that I would qualify under, I would define myself as a disabled person, but actually the definition of having a progressive condition, I would come under that.
“So the potential for this to include far more than just those with true terminal illnesses … those as well with degenerative conditions, is what concerns so many of us and so many of the people that are here today.”
Addressing the dozens of campaigners outside Holyrood, Ms Duncan-Glancy said: “If any of my colleagues are in any doubt whatsoever, if in doubt: don’t.”
She added: “The risk is too high.
“And so I hope that my colleagues will listen carefully to that and will not support this legislation this afternoon.
“I know that I will, on behalf of all of you, go in there and fight for out lives.”
The bill passed at second reading by a vote of 70 to 56. The bill will now go to committee and a final vote is expected later this year.
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