by Danny Kruger, Spectator
Now, splendidly, everything had become clear. The enemy at last was plain in view, huge and hateful, all disguise cast off. It was the Modern Age in arms.’ After last week, I feel like Evelyn Waugh at the time of the Nazi-Soviet Pact in 1939. The politics of ‘progress’ has found its fulfilment in the union of two total malignancies: the campaigns to abort babies at full term and to kill old people before their time. Here is our enemy, all disguise cast off.
I’ve been accused of disguising something myself: my Christian faith. And it’s true that while I’ve never hidden it (see my maiden speech) I didn’t parade my faith as the basis of my objection to assisted suicide. You don’t need religious arguments to show this Bill is bad, and many atheists have been brilliant in the battle against it. You just need to actually read the Bill, and the statements of all the professional bodies who work with the elderly and dying. I’m appalled that so many MPs – judging by their asinine speeches – have plainly not done this.
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