内容摘要："Dogs don't know any different. He would do anything for me. He'd try and stop a man with a knife, put himself in harm's way."

"Dogs don't know any different. He would do anything for me. He'd try and stop a man with a knife, put himself in harm's way."

MSPs can now propose major amendments, ahead of a vote on the final draft.That process is expected to take several months, but needs to be completed before the next Holyrood elections in May 2026.

Paralympian and House of Lords crossbencher Baroness Grey-Thompson is a vocal critic.She is worried that disabled and other vulnerable people could be put under pressure to end their lives - and that doctors may struggle to make accurate six-month diagnoses.Actor and disability-rights activist Liz Carr, who made

, also opposes the legislation."Some of us have very real fears based on our lived experience and based on what has happened in other countries where it's legal," she wrote on X.

Dr Gordon Macdonald, from campaign group Care Not Killing, said the bill ignores the wider "deep-seated problems in the UK's broken and patchy palliative care system".

Talking about the Scottish bill, Labour MSP Pam Duncan-Glancy - the first permanent wheelchair user to be elected to Holyrood - said it could become "easier to access help to die than help to live".The care Mrs Readhead received formed part of both RCP reviews carried out on behalf of the hospital trust.

Pre-op checks had indicated Mrs Readhead's left side was to be used for the TAVI, as her right side had some blockages because of calcified arteries.The manufacturer of the TAVI device that was to be implanted had also written a technical report clearly stating that access via the patient's right artery was unsuitable.

On the day of the operation however, the TAVI medics went in through Mrs Readhead's right leg by mistake. Realising their error, they paused to consider their options but decided to continue - despite the procedure being an elective rather than an emergency operation.They attempted to deploy the TAVI three times.