The U.K. is marching ahead with a dangerous euthanasia bill that experts are warning will be costly and ripe for abuse.

From LifeNews. The British parliament has given initial approval to the bill to legalize assisted suicide on a 330-275 vote. The second reading vote is not the final vote on the matter, but it makes a third reading vote and final approval of the euthanasia bill appear likely.

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Dr Gordon Macdonald, Chief Executive of Care Not Killing, told LifeNews this was a sad and terrible day for the UK.

“We are naturally disappointed at the vote, but have been hugely encouraged that the more MPs hear about assisted suicide and euthanasia the more they turn against changing the law and rightly want the Government to focus on fixing the UK’s broken palliative care system,” he said.

“Indeed, as we heard from numerous MPs today fixing the palliative and social care systems should be the priority, rather than pressing ahead with a dangerous and ideological that will make many elderly, terminally ill and disabled people feel like a burden and end their lives prematurely, exactly as we see in the US state of Oregon, the model for this draft Bill,” the doctor continued. …

Three former Conservative Prime Ministers and the former Labour Prime Minister before Keir Starmer have all come out in opposition to the assisted suicide Bill.

As MPs prepare to vote on Kim Leadbeater’s Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill this Friday, former Prime Ministers Boris Johnson, Baroness May and Liz Truss have indicated they are opposed to the Bill, which, if passed, will make assisted suicide legal for people thought to have fewer than six months to live.

Liz Truss said she was “completely opposed” to the Bill. “It is wrong in principle: organs of the state like the NHS and the judicial system should be protecting lives, not ending them”.

“No doubt, as we have seen in Canada, vulnerable people would be put under appalling pressure to end their lives early. The law would be ripe for being exploited by the unscrupulous. MPs should vote this terrible Bill down and instead focus on improving health services”, she said. …

The Health Secretary has been outspoken in his opposition to the Bill set to be voted on this Friday. Earlier this week, he ordered a review of the costs of implementing assisted suicide if Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide Bill is passed later this month, warning of a “chilling” scenario in which patients are pressured into ending their lives, and saying assisted suicide would “come at the expense of other choices”. …

Delivering assisted suicide would “come at the expense of other competing pressures and priorities”, he added. …

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(Excerpt from LifeNews. Photo Credit: Brayden A. – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=122817004)