State Sanctioned Murder

Do you, assisted dying, take euthanasia to be your lawful wedded husband?

Next Friday, on 26^th July, former Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, Lord Falconer of Thoroton, is set to introduce (yet again) his Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults Bill in the House of Lords.  This will be his fifth attempt to introduce this pernicious and damaging legislation, supposedly giving the terminally ill the right to choose the time and manner of their death.  But this time it is different, because this time the Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, has pledged his full support to its being passed.

Let us make no mistake, a vote for assisted dying is a vote for euthanasia, because the two are indissolubly joined in unholy matrimony, as demonstrated in all the jurisdictions where it has so far been passed.  In the Netherlands, for example, where physician assisted suicide and euthanasia was legalised in 2001, the number of reported euthanasia cases jumped from 1,882 in 2002 to 9,068 in 2023, representing 5.4% of total deaths – or one in twenty – with 20% of those cases listed as having been for ‘psychological reasons’.

In 2023, the Netherlands further broadened its rules for euthanasia to include children aged one to twelve, who had been ‘diagnosed’ as suffering unbearably and with no hope of improvement.  Note, there was no pretence of any requirement for terminal illness or imminent expectation of death – all that was needed was assessment by a third party of ‘unbearable suffering’.

In a recent report entitled Abuse in End of Life Care, carried out by the Lords and Commons Family and Child Protection Group and published by VfJUK, it was found that distressingly high numbers of vulnerable and/or elderly patients admitted to hospital in the UK were already, as part of their so-called care package, having ‘treatment’ withdrawn – which included for these purposes food and hydration – and being prescribed instead drugs such as  midazolam and morphine, administered with the purpose of rendering them unconscious, while hastening death.  In other words, vulnerable patients in the UK and admitted under the NHS are already being subjected to backdoor euthanasia.  If all restraints should now be removed, with the legalisation of assisted dying, how can the rights of those who want to live, and die naturally, possibly be preserved?

The short answer is, they can’t.

From the reports of all jurisdictions where assisted dying and euthanasia has been legalised, we know that, despite all supposed safeguards, the rates are inappropriately soaring – and that assisted dying/euthanasia, is even, on occasion, being offered by insurance companies as an alternative to expensive treatments the companies don’t want to fund.
 
If this damaging and dangerous Bill should now be passed and become law for the UK, we will be opening the door to incredible abuse and leaving people of all ages terrified of going into hospital.  

Please contact your MP today, urging them not to support Lord Falconer’s Bill.  And please let us know any response you receive.

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