The Observer reports that 800 people have become members of Dignitas, the Swiss pro-euthanasia organisation. It also reports that a group of peers will table an amendment this week to the Coroners and Justice Bill to lift the threat of prosecution from people in England and Wales who assist suicide.

Regrettably, the Observer does not include any prolife comment or opposition to euthanasia at all – it instead quotes a series of pro-euthanasia supporters. This pro-euthanasia bias constitutes scaremongering. It is no wonder 800 people are queuing up, if this is the pro-euthanasia diet they are being fed by the media.

Dominica Roberts from the ProLife Alliance was interviewed on LBC radio today at 11am. During the interview, she warned of the dangers of allowing assisted suicide which will inevitably lead to vulnerable people being pressurised. She also called for better palliative care services.

Several callers to the programme described their experiences of the inadequacy of the NHS, and cited this as a reason for supporting assisted suicide, while other callers argued that the callers’ bad experience of the NHS simply proves that improving nursing and palliative care is the answer. One caller contrasted the inadequate NHS care, with the superb care given in a hospice.

Clearly, this debate will go on and it is vital that everyone expresses their opposition by calling radio stations, writing to the media, and lobbies Parliament to demand that care for the terminally ill is improved and euthanasia remains illegal.

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