COMMENT – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Press comment – Case of drug seller aiding suicides shows assisted suicide Bill must not be brought back
Right To Life UK responds to Canadian ‘poison seller’, Kenneth Law, pleading guilty to aiding suicides by selling toxic chemical online.
Catherine Robinson, spokesperson for Right To Life UK, a charity that campaigns against assisted suicide and euthanasia, and for better investment in palliative care, said:
“Kenneth Law’s crimes are deeply disturbing and the families of his UK victims have every right to feel aggrieved about the failure of authorities to protect their loved ones from his malicious schemes. Too often, campaigners for assisted suicide in Britain have dressed up their intentions as noble when the reality is, as with Law, they would lead to the needless deaths of countless vulnerable people who deserve the offer of support not suicide, whether at the hands of Kenneth Law or the state”.
“MPs currently coming under pressure from radical campaigners to bring back the assisted suicide Bill, which would lead to more vulnerable people having their lives unnecessarily ended, cannot now possibly do so. This story ought to put an end to the UK debate.”
