Gordon Brown Speaks Out against Assisted Suicide
The Prime Minister, Gordon Brown has today spoken out against any move towards legalising Assisted Suicide. The Director of Public Prosecutions, Keir Starmer, is due to release guidelines tomorrow, which are expected to make it easier to help others to kill themselves without facing prosecution.
In his article in the Daily Telegraph, he writes:
‘Cases dominating the public arena make for harrowing reading and the first and most obvious response is to say that something must be done. But when these complex, individual and distressing cases are considered in detail, a solution that at first might seem sensible – the right to die in a manner and at a time of one’s choosing – swiftly becomes less straightforward and more worrying.’
‘The risk of pressures – however subtle – on the frail and the vulnerable, who may for example feel their existences burdensome to others, cannot ever be entirely excluded.’
Click here to read the full article.
Action Points
There are four quick ways that you could help save lives today, by helping us avoid the effective legalisation of Assisted Suicide by the back door:
1) Pray against the weakening of the law on Assisted Suicide in the UK, and particularly for Keir Starmer. Pray he upholds the law as it stands.
2) Leave positive comments on Gordon Brown's Telegraph article.
3) Write to Gordon Brown to thank him for writing the article, and standing on the side of life on this issue.
Rt Hon Gordon Brown
House of Commons
London
SW1A 0AA
4) E-mail Keir Starmer at complaints@cps.gsi.gov.uk and HQPolicy@cps.gsi.gov.uk or phone his office on 020 7796 8500. Ask him to uphold the law and maintain the presumption of prosecution in cases of Assisted Suicide.