Member

Again, the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has said that assisted dying should not be a solution to socially created suffering, and, to quote the Scottish Human Rights Commission, that requires a “robust” and “multilayered” approach to safeguarding. It is important that we have proper safeguarding, but—without reiterating the argument about the issues of mission creep—even without changes, quite often safeguards can be put in at the very start that then in practice, from a practical point of view, as time moves on, get watered down. If we are to try to counteract that and to have the most robust safeguards from the start, particularly for disabled and vulnerable people, having a high-water mark there is the best form of protection that we can provide in this particular aspect.