Britain Votes for Legal Suicide
Britain voted 330 to 275 in favor of legalized euthanasia after five hours of debate on Friday. The bill, which applies to England and Wales, will undergo further scrutiny before the official vote.
Currently, a person faces up to 14 years in prison if he is party to an assisted death. This will no longer be the case for a patient who:
- is 18 or over
- is diagnosed with a terminal illness and has a life expectancy of 6 months or less
- has the approval of two independent doctors and a High Court judge
- self-administers the lethal drugs
Arguments: Those who support the bill say it is compassionate and merciful to cut short a miserable death.
- “Let’s be clear, we’re not talking about a choice between life or death; we are talking about giving dying people a choice about how to die,” Kim Leadbeater, leading proponent of the bill, said during the debate.
Those against the bill say the focus should be assisting people to live healthy lives, not ending them.
- “I voted against the assisted dying bill, not out of a lack of compassion but because I fear that the law will widen in scope. If that happens, the right to die may become the obligation to die,” Nigel Farage posted on X.
Thin edge of the wedge: In theory, the requirements for assisted death will be strictly adhered to and kept to a minimum, yet one need only look across the Atlantic to Canada to see what the inevitable looks like. One compromise leads to another.
The fact that Britain is willing to pass a law allowing the state to kill its own citizens exposes a major decline in national morality.
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