The attempt by Lord Falconer, former Lord Chancellor, to legalise assisted suicide overseas (such as at the Swiss ‘Dignitas’ clinic) failed last night in the Lords by 194 to 141. More can be read here.
Like all liberal and anti-life innovations, I am sure it will come back again, but for now a battle has been won, thank God, if not the war.
We shouldn’t forget that it would be a short step from legalised assisted suicide abroad to legalised assisted suicide in the UK, and from that to legalised euthanasia, and from that to a presumption for clinical euthanasia as a routine course of action. The experience of the Abortion Act 1967 should tell us that.
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