These are the faces of the MPs who want to legalise the right for people to help their relatives and friends kill themselves. Patricia Hewitt's amendment (signed by six other anti-life MPs above and supported by about 100 in total) to the Coroners and Justice Bill would make it lawful to suggest that a person travel to a country where assisted suicide is legal, and to assist them to travel there. It is not restricted to facilitating suicide for the dying. It seems to apply to anyone, old or young, disabled or suffering from depression or other mental illness. One question has to be asked of these politicians: What are they doing?
They are putting vulnerable people at risk of greedy relatives who want to get hold of their money. But there's something much more sinister about this proposal - they are effectively saying that some lives are not worth living. What gives cocky MPs the right to even suggest that our humanity can be done away with when we feel like it? This is relativism at its most destructive.
Hewitt argues her amendment will only "reinforcing the current prosecution policy", referring to the claim that no-one has been prosecuted for doing this from the UK as yet. But it will mean allowing aiding and abetting a suicide - or to cut to the chase - a form of murder, in my opinion. Hewitt fully admits this is part of a much wider agenda. It's her first step to try to legalise assisted suicide in the UK. She wants to introduce a private members' bill to that effect when given the chance. These are dangerous times.
It is outrageous and chilling that a former Health Secretary thinks a type of healthcare should be helping people to kill themselves. If this is really what she considers key motivation for doctors and nurses should be, we might as well forget about the NHS altogether.
This amendment was only tabled on Thursday - and may be debated and voted on by Monday or Tuesday. It just shows how evil pieces of legislation can get through in less than a week in our political system. By Wednesday, Parliament could have put the last nail in the coffin for the sanctity of life. Please don't allow this to happen. Contact your MP today to urge them not to support this.
Ms Hewitt's amendment has been signed by Conservative MPs Crispin Blunt and Richard Ottaway, Labour's Kevin Barron, James Plaskitt and Chris McCafferty and (the king of secularism) Lib Dem Evan Harris.
4 comments:
How do I find out who the 100 supporting MPs are. I want to make sure my local MP isn't one of this sorry bunch (and if he is, to fire off an email/letter at him)?
Also today is the news http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7956450.stm that a the lawcourts have ruled that a couple cannot stop doctors from killing their disabled baby. It seems the State is happy to take away the rights of parents when it suits them, but as soon as they want someone to blame for the bad behaviour of children they'll send the parents to jail. It all stinks.
Found it now (to save you looking it's at http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=37228&SESSION=899 )
Interestingly, Ms Hewitt's name is nowhere to be seen. Has she removed it I wonder or is there some sort of procedural reason for this?
It is not relativism to stand up for the moral principles underpinning the assisted dying bill. At a time when others are immorally suggesting to people in AIDS ridden Africa that they should abstain from using condoms it seems a bit rich to be condemning those who seek to help people to end their lives with dignity. AIDS has killed 20m people in Africa and in my opinion those in authority who hand out foolhardy advice on sexual behaviour will be the ones guilty of mass murder.
Frightening...they'd probably just kill me off now!!
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