Pro-Life Group Calls Amendment to Law on Assisted Suicide Reckless

LONDON - MPs have tabled an amendment seeking to legalise assisting the suicide of
any vulnerable person, not restricted to the terminally ill. The amendment
tabled by Patricia Hewitt and others would legalise helping any vulnerable
person to commit suicide. It would apply to people with disabilities and
those who have degenerative diseases, and these people are the main target of
the amendment, but it is much more wide-ranging.

Paul Tully, General Secretary of SPUC said: “This is a reckless and
dangerous amendment that could lead to the deaths of many people if MPs do
not read the text of the amendment carefully and recognise that it sanctions
helping anyone to die - a teenager upset after failing exams or bullied at
school, a businessman in debt, or a post-natally depressed mother. The
euthanasia lobby have a track record of exploiting people who have lost hope
and purpose in their lives. The appropriate response in a caring and
civilised society is to help such people to regain their sense of self-worth
and overcome suffering, not to tell them that they are right to want to die.
But the MPs who have tabled this amendment are threatening the lives of all
suicidal people whatever problem they face.”

Further information: Paul Tully +44(0)7939-178719, +44(0)20-7091-7091

Source: Society for the Protection of Unborn Children

Further information: Paul Tully +44(0)7939-178719, +44(0)20-7091-7091