The risk of assisted suicide.
The Christian Legal Centre, recognizing the risk of assisted suicide and
euthanasia laws to the most vulnerable in our society: the sick, elderly,
depressed or disabled; recently supported Nikki and Merv Kenward in their case
challenging the DPP's relaxing of its prosecutorial guidelines relating to
medical personnel who participate in bringing on an unnatural
death.
That case was important because European history has shown that once
adopted, doctor-prescribed death escapes regulation and the circumstances in
which it is allowed grows rapidly and exponentially. Examples abound. In
Switzerland, once doctor prescribed death was adopted, the instances of assisted
suicide grew an astonishing 700 percent in just 10 years. In the Netherlands,
instances of unreported involuntary euthanasia are rampant. Christian
Concern.
Exponentially, huh? Just look at the 1967 Abortion Act - what it
said and what it became!
