Scotland Theological Debate To Examine Assisted Dying Law
A theological debate is being held in Glasgow on moves to change the law on physician-assisted suicide.
It comes as work continues at Holyrood by independent MSP Margo MacDonald to bring forward another bill to allow assisted suicide.
She insists her call to allow assisted suicide for those suffering terminal conditions is not a moral issue.
The Friends At The End (Fate) conference features Church of Scotland speakers on both sides of the argument.
Ms MacDonald’s first bill before Holyrood fell foul of what she said was knee-jerk reaction from religious organisations.
Saturday’s conference debate will include Reverend Scott McKenna, a minister from Edinburgh who believes assisted suicide does not contravene Christian teaching, and the Reverend Sally Foster-Fulton, convener of the Kirk’s Church and Society Council, who will put forward the opposite view.
Ms MacDonald, who has Parkinson’s disease, has claimed there is public support for a change in the law.
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