The movement to legalize assisted suicide in Scotland has been affected badly suffered when a key Holyrood committee claimed of denying support to the new right-to-die legislation.

Independent MSP Margo MacDonald, who suffers from Parkinson's disease, is causing the private Member's Bill to make amendments in the law.

The Scottish parliament committee which cut out the proposals claimed that the members were "not persuaded the case had been made" and could not suggest anything about the Bill and when it is the matter of MSPs especially seeking for the crucial vote next week.

The End of Life Assistance Bill specifies for all those who are aged over 16 can request aid for their death. The person however should be claimed to be terminally ill or permanently physically incapacitated, and find life unbearable.

The decision was condemned by the pro-euthanasia campaigners but was weel acpted by the by the British Medical Association in Scotland who said, "Overall, the majority was not persuaded the case had been made to decriminalise the law of homicide as it applies to assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia, termed 'end-of-life assistance' in the Bill."