Scotland would have become the first part of the UK to legalise the process had MSPs backed the proposals.
Yet passing a final vote was always likely to be a tall order, with several parliamentarians backing the bill at stage one not because they supported the law, but because they thought it was an issue that ought to be debated in-depth.
— Source: BBC News (https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c33j3nd1kvko)
