Debbie Purdy: It’s not Gordon Brown who’s shown a lack of respect – it’s you
I can’t help myself, I think that George Pitcher over at the Telegraph is on sizzling form:-
Prime Minister Gordon Brown writes in the Telegraph today that assisted suicide must never be legalised. And he makes the very strong point that the Director of Public Prosecutions’ guidelines on when someone assisting a suicide may expect not to be prosecuted, published tomorrow, make the case for a change in the law on euthanasia becomes much weaker, because all the acceptable compassionate circumstances surrounding an assisted death will be clear and accountable – and those not meeting them can expect up to 14 years in jail under the Suicide Act if they don’t satisfy all of them.
I bet the pro-euthanasia lobbyists at Dignity in Dying didn’t think of that – it has always been their intention to progress to legalised euthanasia by increments.
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