Meacher’s assisted suicide by stealth

Jan 3, 2022 by

by Simon Caldwell, TCW:

IN A speech from the floor of the House of Lords shortly before Christmas, Lady Meacher revealed her intention to hijack the Health and Social Care Bill to legalise assisted suicide.

‘Crucial to high-quality palliative care is the patient’s right to choose at the very end of life, and the Bill needs to play its part in this area – we cannot afford not to,’ said the baroness, who, when not campaigning for the decriminalisation of drugs, also serves as the chair of Dignity in Dying, the campaigning organisation formerly known as the Voluntary Euthanasia Society.

She prefaced her words by informing peers that such measures were necessary to save the NHS which, she said, was suffering ‘the greatest workforce stress since its inception’, with staff burnt out, retiring early, ‘leaving the service mid-career, reducing their hours, or planning one or other of these steps in terrifying numbers’.

Those fed up with Lady Meacher’s obsessions predicted an assisted suicide amendment to the Government’s Bill imminently, especially since Boris Johnson had frowned upon her own Assisted Dying Bill and was likely to deny it parliamentary time to progress into law.

They were right. Meacher subsequently tabled an amendment which is due to be considered at Committee Stage from January 11.

It is cautiously worded, its authors conscious perhaps that to use a Bill aimed at restructuring the NHS as a vehicle for assisted suicide is as outrageous as, say, manipulating it for the purpose of reintroducing capital punishment.

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