Assisted Suicide:
Assisted Suicide: (1)
- On: 03 February 2011
- In: Assisted Suicide:
- By: Clerk
The All Party Pro-Life Group in Parliament is opposed to any further relaxation of the law against euthanasia or assisted suicide. The reasoned case against any legally permissible killing of one person by another or assisted by another is that this completely undermines the most important and foundational principle of both our ethical and legal framework as a society. The principle at stake is that all human life is precious and all people are innately valuable and of equal worth. We therefore have a responsibility as a society to uphold the value of human life and so the deliberate taking of someone’s life is not permissible, in law or in our universal understanding of our own ethics.
