Just an hour ago, the Scottish Parliament voted to reject the legalisation of assisted suicide by 69 votes to 57. This is cause for profound gratitude. Christians across the United Kingdom should give thanks to God that this deeply troubling proposal has been turned aside.
The bill, brought forward by Liberal Democrat MSP Liam McArthur, would have allowed terminally ill adults with less than six months to live to obtain medical assistance to end their lives. Scotland would have joined that minority of dark places which says some lives are no longer worth living.
In effect, this bill would have invited the medical profession to cross a moral boundary that civilised societies have long recognised: the deliberate taking of innocent human life. Instead, MSPs have refused to take that step. For now, Scotland has been spared the establishment of a system in which doctors help patients to die.
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