The Royal College of Physicians and a disturbing step nearer to euthanasia
by Philippa Taylor, The Conservative Woman:
AS reported by Alistair Thompson on TCW yesterday the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) is to poll its 35,000 members to ask whether ‘they would help a terminally ill patient to die and whether the law should be changed to allow assisted dying’.
It is hard to see why, despite polling all its members only a few years ago with the same question, it has decided it needs to ask them again. The worry is whether this could be the start of a deliberate attempt to go officially ‘neutral’ on ‘assisted dying’ and from there, actively to support it.
The term ‘assisted dying’ is a euphemism. It has no meaning in law but in practice means supplying lethal drugs to the terminally ill with the purpose of helping them to commit suicide. At the moment, the RCP opposes it. And rightly so for the reality is that ‘assisted dying’ is just another definition of euthanasia.
The RCP says it wants to find out if its members and fellows support a change in the law to permit ‘assisted dying’ or not, and whether it should become officially ‘neutral’ on the issue.
Read also: Assisted dying: Why the RCP should be opposed by Dr Amy Proffitt, executive secretary of the Association for Palliative Medicine (APM), Royal College of Physicians
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