Ask your local MSP candidates to take the End-of-Life Protection Pledge
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Will your local MSP candidates sign the pledge?
In the lead-up to the 2026 Scottish Parliament election, ask your MSP candidates if they will sign the End-of-Life Protection Pledge.
The Scottish assisted suicide Bill was decisively rejected at Stage 3 only a few weeks ago by 69 votes to 57. This settled the matter following years of time-consuming debate inside and outside Holyrood.
Assisted suicide campaigners are now lobbying MSP candidates standing in the Holyrood elections to introduce another assisted suicide Bill following the upcoming Scottish Parliament elections in May.
Regardless of where MSP candidates stand on the subject of assisted suicide, something that both sides of this debate can agree on is that an issue such as assisted suicide, which takes up large amounts of parliamentary time, should be a once-in-a-generation vote.
The day after the defeat of the recent Scottish assisted suicide Bill, The Times newspaper quoted an MSP who supported the Bill as acknowledging that the matter should not come back quickly. The MSP said “That’s three times it’s been defeated… Tuesday’s vote should be given time to sink in. Wiser heads should prevail and we should not be in a hurry to bring it back.”
It would be highly inappropriate and a distraction for another Bill to be introduced so soon after the previous one was decisively rejected. By way of comparison, the current Westminster assisted suicide Bill, which is also set to fall, was introduced almost a decade after the previous occasion that MPs voted on this issue.
Scotland faces many challenges at present, and it would be an unwelcome distraction from the problems facing the country, as well as a failure to recognise the democratic decision of MSPs from multiple parties only a few weeks ago, to allow a new assisted suicide Bill to be brought forward.
Instead of introducing new legislation on such a controversial and divisive topic, MSPs should now unite and work together to invest in better quality palliative and social care, and to ensure consistent and universal access to such care in order to help people at the end of life.
Please take action and use our EasyAction tool to write to your local MSP candidates and ask them to sign the End-of-Life Protection Pledge.
If elected as an MSP,
I pledge to:
- Support greater investment in palliative care.
- Oppose the introduction of a new assisted suicide Bill in the next Parliament,
so soon after the defeat of the Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill in the last Parliament.
Click here or email pledge@righttolife.org.uk to sign the pledge.
The more MSP candidates who respond, the better informed the public will be
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