補助装置d Dying: What is the 状況／情勢 in the UK, Ireland and 栄冠を与える Dependencies?
With a?法案 存在 published at the Scottish 議会, the conversation around 補助装置d dying is becoming louder.
Here, the PA news 機関 takes a look at the 状況／情勢 as it stands across the UK, Ireland and 栄冠を与える Dependencies.
? What is 補助装置d dying?
Some 選挙運動者s argue the 年輩の could be 特に at 危険 from a 法律 change (Joe Giddens/PA)
This, and the language used, 変化させるs depending on who you ask.
プロの／賛成の-change 選挙運動者s Dignity in Dying 明言する／公表する that 補助装置d dying 許すs a person with a 終点 条件 the choice to 支配（する）／統制する their death if they decide their 苦しむing is unbearable.
They argue that, along with good care, dying people who are terminally ill and mentally competent adults deserve the choice to 支配（する）／統制する the タイミング and manner of their death.
But the （選挙などの）運動をする group Care Not 殺人，大当り uses the 条件 “補助装置d 自殺” and “安楽死” and argues that the 焦点（を合わせる） should be on “促進するing more and better palliative care” rather than any 法律 change.
They say legalising 補助装置d dying could “place 圧力 on 攻撃を受けやすい people to end their lives for 恐れる of 存在 a 財政上の, emotional or care 重荷（を負わせる） upon others” and argue the 無能にするd, 年輩の, sick or depressed could be 特に at 危険.
? What is the 現在の 法律?
Some 選挙運動者s have been calling for a change in the 法律 on 補助装置d dying (Jonathan Brady/PA)
補助装置d 自殺 is banned in England, むちの跡s and Northern?Ireland, with a 最大限 刑務所，拘置所 宣告，判決 of 14 years.
In Scotland, it is not a 明確な／細部 犯罪の offence but 補助装置ing the death of someone can leave a person open to 存在 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金d with 殺人 or other offences.
? What is happening in Scotland?
Scottish 自由主義の 民主党員 MSP Liam McArthur has introduced an 補助装置d Dying 法案 (Jane Barlow/PA)
自由主義の 民主党員 MSP Liam McArthur was publishing a 法案 on Thursday at Holyrood that, if passed, will 許す people living in Scotland with a 終点 illness to be given help to end their life.
Mr McArthur has said he is “絶対 納得させるd” the “long-延滞の 改革（する）” will become 法律.
His 法案 示すs the third time MSPs will have considered the 問題／発行する, with previous 試みる／企てるs to change the 法律 failing to 安全な・保証する enough 投票（する）s to proceed.
The 法案 is now 推定する／予想するd to be scrutinised by MSPs on Holyrood’s Health 委員会 and will likely 直面する its first 投票（する） later this year.
? What about other parts of the UK, Ireland and the 栄冠を与える Dependencies?
The 小島 of Man´s 議会 has been considered an 補助装置d Dying 法案 (Alamy/PA)
提案s for how an 補助装置d dying 法律 would work in Jersey ? one of the UK’s three self-治める／統治するing 栄冠を与える Dependencies ? were published in March, with a 審議 in the 明言する／公表するs 議会 planned for May, and a 投票（する） then 推定する／予想するd on whether to proceed with 製図／抽選 up 法律制定.
The earliest for a 法律 to come into 影響 in Jersey would be spring or summer 2027.
The 小島 of Man published a 委員会 報告（する）／憶測 in March on its 補助装置d Dying 法案, which had passed a second reading 投票（する） in the island’s 議会 in October.
The 報告（する）／憶測, which 示唆するd possible 改正s to the text of the 法案, is 推定する／予想するd to be 審議d in April.
In the 共和国 of Ireland, a 委員会 recommended in March that 法律制定 許すing for 補助装置d dying in 確かな 制限するd circumstances should be introduced.
But it led to a 分裂（する） with some 委員会 members 辞退するing to support the 推薦s, arguing the 事例／患者 for 補助装置d dying “has not been 設立するd”.
? What has Westminster said?
A 報告（する）／憶測 by a 委員会 of MPs at Westminster said legalisation in at least one 裁判権 is looking `ますます likely´ (Kirsty O´Connor/PA)
In February, a 報告（する）／憶測 by MPs on the Health and Social Care 委員会 警告するd that the 政府 must consider what to do if the 法律 is changed in part of the UK or on the 小島 of Man or Jersey, both of which are 栄冠を与える dependencies.
The 委員会 ? which did not make any 推薦 for a 投票（する） on the 問題／発行する, said legalisation in at least one 裁判権 is looking “ますます likely” and 示唆するd the 政府 must be “活発に 伴う／関わるd” in discussions about how to approach differences in the 法律.
Sir Keir Starmer has said he is “committed” to 許すing a 投票（する） on legalising 補助装置d dying should 労働 勝利，勝つ the 総選挙, while 負かす／撃墜するing Street has 以前 said it would be up to 議会 whether to again 審議 legalising?補助装置d?dying.
? Has the 問題／発行する been 審議d in the UK 議会 before?
Yes. An 補助装置d Dying 法案, which would have 許すd some terminally ill adults to ask for 医療の help to end their life, went before the ありふれたs in 2015 and was 拒絶するd by MPs.
There was also a 法案 提案するd in the House of Lords during the 2021/2022 開会／開廷／会期 which reached a second reading in the 議会.
