from Sky News
Actor Liz Carr is to travel to Holyrood to urge MSPs to vote against “dangerous” plans to legalise assisted dying.
Carr, who is best known for her role in the BBC crime drama Silent Witness, is also a disability rights campaigner and a member of the Not Dead Yet group, which is opposed to assisted dying.
She will speak at a rally outside the Scottish Parliament on Tuesday, as MSPs prepare to vote on a Bill brought forward by Liberal Democrat MSP Liam McArthur which would allow terminally ill Scots to seek help to end their life.
Mr McArthur argues his Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill provides a “compassionate choice” for those who could otherwise be faced with a painful death.
But Carr said: “Liam McArthur’s Bill is dangerous for older, ill and disabled people across Scotland — even more so than the Kim Leadbeater’s Bill being considered in Westminster.”