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Public Opposition to UK Euthanasia Bill Is Growing

May 6, 2025 UKR Editor GOVERNMENT 0

Public opposition to UK euthanasia bill is growing

ER Editor: Some tweets below. A range of tweets on X, in fact, indicates there is a shambolic mess with this bill, driven by a kind of death-cult wish. We do not speak lightly here. Check out the zealot MP Kim Leadbeater, who is pushing this bill. We wouldn’t trust her as far as we could throw her.

Another of journalist Jonathon van Maren’s articles rightly focuses on a class system difference in the whole push to get people to assent to their own suicide. We recommend it –

The UK’s assisted suicide battle pits the rich against the vulnerable

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Public opposition to UK euthanasia bill is growing

There is growing concern over the fate of the vulnerable in a UK euthanasia regime, and several MPs who previously supported the euthanasia bill have now expressed their opposition.

JONATHON VAN MAREN for LIFESITE NEWS

Bad news for UK Labour MP Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide bill is good news for the vulnerable, and there has been plenty of it recently. 

A recent YouGov poll commissioned by the Salvation Army last month found that 56 percent of Britons fear that people will choose assisted suicide because they believe they are a burden. Additionally, 64 percent believe that there will be a high risk of elderly people being pressured into assisted suicide, and 58 percent believe that people with disabilities will be at higher risk. 

Featured ImageSenior woman in hospital Pressmaster/Shutterstock

 

In fact, 55 percent of adults who support assisted suicide in principle also believe that people with disabilities will be pressured into killing themselves, and an additional 60 percent were concerned that the elderly will feel pressured, and 53 percent feared that those with mental illness will be at risk. In fact, Leadbeater’s assisted suicide committee voted down safeguards on nearly every single one of those counts.  

ER: In the linked-to article above, van Maren asks rightly —

If the U.K.’s ban on euthanasia and assisted suicide is, in fact, “cruel” enforcement of suffering, it is worth asking why organizations representing society’s chronic sufferers are so staunchly opposed to legalization. Why are most palliative care specialists so opposed to assisted suicide? Why is every single organization advocating for people with disabilities opposed to assisted suicide? Why are organizations representing the psychiatric profession sounding the alarm? What are they telling us that euthanasia activists are not? 

“Beneath widespread sympathy lies a deep unease about how such legislation could expose the most vulnerable to harm, coercion, or abandonment,” stated Paul Main of the Salvation Army, adding that “we are urging MPs to vote against the Bill. We are gravely concerned that the Bill inadvertently creates a two-tier system of death.”

“It is terrifying to face terminal illness without palliative care but if you cannot access the support that can help alleviate suffering, you may feel you have no choice but to ask for an assisted suicide,” Main concluded. 

In fact, even a wildly optimistic impact statement recently released by government bureaucrats for MPs as they debate assisted suicide stated that 10 years after legalization, the number of assisted suicide deaths could reach 4,000 annually, and that the numbers would grow over time. This would put euthanasia deaths at just under one percent of annual deaths. 

In the Netherlands, euthanasia deaths grew from 1.2 percent of recorded deaths after legalization in 2002 to 5.8 percent in 2024 (9,958 deaths) and continues to grow year over year. Even those supportive of the regime have begun to express alarm. In Belgium in 2023, euthanasia deaths had risen to 3.1 percent of recorded deaths; in Canada, only seven years after legalization, the rate reached a staggering 4.7 percent and climbing.

The impact statement, which has not yet been released in its entirety, is also expected to include the cost savings of legalizing euthanasia. The money that will be saved by prematurely ending lives is a frequent and morbid talking point of those pushing euthanasia as socialized healthcare systems come under strain from an aging population combined with demographic collapse create terminal problems for Western nations.

Polls indicate that while most Britons support assisted suicide in principle, the months-long debate and train wreck Leadbeater committee has created growing concern over the fate of the vulnerable in a UK euthanasia regime. The bill is set to return to Parliament this month, and several MPs who previously supported it have now expressed their opposition. 

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Featured image source: https://spuc.org.uk/over-half-of-britons-fear-that-vulnerable-citizens-will-be-pressured-into-assisted-suicide-devastating-poll-finds/

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Assisted dying ‘will kill as many as 4,500 people a year’

Report says legislation could save taxpayer £90m as critics flag dangers of lives being ‘seen as expendable’

JANET EASTHAM and DANIEL MARTIN

More than 4,500 people a year are expected to end their lives by assisted dying within a decade of the service being legalised.

A long-awaited government document, published on Friday, is the first time Whitehall has attached a financial figure to assisted dying.

The Government’s estimate would see up to 12 people a day ending their lives through assisted dying after a decade.

But campaigners warn the true death toll may far exceed this upper estimate.

There could be between 1,042 and 4,559 assisted deaths in 10 years, saving the taxpayer up to £90 million in healthcare and benefits and pensions payments, according to the impact assessment of the proposed legislation.

The proposed legislation would allow terminally ill adults in England and Wales, with fewer than six months to live, to apply for an assisted death, subject to approval by two doctors and a panel featuring a social worker, a lawyer and a psychiatrist.

However, the granular nature of the Government’s predicted cost savings has led disability rights campaigners to fear that people’s “lives will be seen as expendable”.

Liz Carr, a disabled actor who starred in the BBC crime drama Silent Witness, said the impact assessment’s conclusion “only confirms the fears of many disabled people that our lives will be expendable”.

Calling the law “dangerous”, she said she feared becoming a “burden on public services”.

She added: “The treatment of disabled, ill and older people during the early days of Covid should serve as a warning to the very real consequences of acting on these all-too-common money-saving prejudices.”

The analysis found up to £59.6 million could be saved by the NHS in 10 years – with a further reduction of £18.3 million in state pension payments.

More specifically, officials projected savings of up to £6.2 million in attendance allowance (a benefit for elderly people who need help with personal care or supervision) and £3.1 million in unspent personal independence payments in the first decade. […]

The 149-page assessment into the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill was published exactly a fortnight ahead of the next Commons debate on the proposed new law.

If enacted, the assisted dying service would be up and running in England and Wales from October 2029 – with between 164 and 787 assisted deaths in its first half-year of operation.

This would rise to between 1,042 and 4,559 assisted deaths by year 10, assuming 60 per cent of applicants go through with the procedure.

Cost savings to the NHS could be significant. The report said: “Assuming all assisted deaths occur after two months, reducing the length of life by four months, then it is estimated that 79 per cent of the associated healthcare costs (for months four to one) are no longer required.”

This would result in a “reduction in spend of between £2.14 million to £10.3 million in year one (which is half a year) and £13.6 million and £59.6 million in year 10 (in 2025-26 prices).”

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