Members of Parliament need to come to their senses and reject the assisted suicide measure before it makes it into the statute books.
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The decision by the United Kingdom’s Parliament to give a preliminary go-ahead for an assisted suicide regime in England and Wales represents a heartbreaking tragedy on two levels. It reinforces how our modern culture has devalued human life and exemplifies how government-run health care systems have accelerated this devaluation.
The recent vote does not guarantee the measure will be enacted into law; it merely continues the legislative process, and lawmakers can — and should — reject it during subsequent stages. But it comes nine years after the same Parliament, by a nearly three-to-one margin, rejected any changes to the law on assisted suicide.
