Érdekes lesz figyelni, hogy hova fut ki az angol parlament alsóházában október 16-án kezdődő vita.

Erről egy hosszabb véleménycikk:

 

Polly Toynbee: Two deaths shaped my belief in the right to die. This bill could change everything (Guardian)

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/09/assisted-dying-bill-kim-leadbeater-right-to-die

 

Lelkesen támogatja a törvénytervezetet és drukkol annak sikeréért.

Az ottani közvélemény 75% vs 14% arányban támogatja a méltóságteljes halálhoz való jogot,

az új parlament képviselői nagy többséggel a változás mellett vannak.

 

"Bravo to Kim Leadbeater. She can expect a rough ride for introducing an assisted dying bill. If passed, the Leadbeater legislation will enter the history books as another basic right brought in by a Labour government. Even though the public has for years backed the right to die – in the latest poll by 75% for to 14% against, and the My Death, My Decision campaign reckons a huge majority of MPs in the new parliament are set to back it – she will come under ferocious cannonades from those vehemently opposed."

 

Persze lesz ellenállás:

"Opponents will try to strangle the bill with restrictions. The bishops again oppose it, whipped in by their convener of the Lords Spiritual, the bishop of St Albans, who last week said, nonsensically, that the bill could encourage medical serial killers such as Harold Shipman and Lucy Letby who “get a thrill from killing”. Christians, he said, believe “life is a gift” and taking life is “sinful”. On the BBC’s Sunday Morning Live, a Catholic writer told of her mother’s excruciating death from brain cancer, but claimed “suffering is a necessary part of life”. That’s a personal belief in a God of cruelty from the religion that wears a symbol of torture round its neck, but what a wickedness to inflict that on others."