spiked-liberties | Article | Assisted dying by the backdoor

Kevin Yuill notes a couple of disturbing developments that tend toward promotion of euthanasia in the UK.

First of all, Lord Chief Justice Woolf apparently supports lesser sentences for some murders if a particular killing was done because the killer claims to have thought he or she would relieve suffering by the action. Another way of saying that - there is a move to recognize gradations of murder based on the perceived quality of the victim's life.

Second, the British Medical Association has voted to abandon its previous opposition to legalization of assisted suicide or 'assisted dying' (single quotes mine), opting instead to increase protections for those doctors who don't want to participate in such procedures.

(The world seems upside down, somehow, when a medical society thinks it has become necessary to beef up legal protections for doctors who don't feel they ought to be in the business of killing their patients.)

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