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Gordon Brown Speaks Out against Assisted Suicide
The Prime Minister, Gordon Brown has today spoken out against any move towards legalising Assisted Suicide. The Director of Public Prosecutions, Keir Starmer, is due to release guidelines tomorrow, which are expected to make it easier to help others to kill themselves without facing prosecution.
In his article in the Daily Telegraph, he writes:
‘Cases dominating the public arena make for harrowing reading and the first and most obvious response is to say that something must be done. But when these complex, individual and distressing cases are considered in detail, a solution that at first might seem sensible – the right to die in a manner and at a time of one’s choosing – swiftly becomes less straightforward and more worrying.’
‘The risk of pressures – however subtle – on the frail and the vulnerable, who may for example feel their existences burdensome to others, cannot ever be entirely excluded.’
Click here to read the full article.
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