What Sort of Government Votes to Let Doctors Kill With Impunity? by Gavin Ashenden

(On November 29th) a majority of MPs at Westminster voted in favour of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, which is to say that the UK Parliament has now approved the principle of assisted suicide – death at the hands of the state. There is a small window of hope that it will be defeated the next time around, but in reality a momentum has built up that will be very hard to resist.

About thirty other jurisdictions in the world have legalised assisted suicide. Much was made by the supporters of the bill that the UK was not adopting their legislation but framing its own. But that hides a dark truth, which is that there is no legislation that has adequately managed to write in the necessary safeguards. …

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