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A pro-assisted suicide amendment was defeated in the British parliament last week in a vote of 179 to 145. According to Right to Life UK<\/a>, this was a “major upset” as assisted suicide proponents had expected it to pass.<\/p>\n

Assisted suicide in the United Kingdom is punishable by up to 14 years in jail based on the 1961 Suicide Act, according to Crux Now<\/a>. The amendment to the Health and Social Care Bill would have allowed the government to introduce legislation to legalize assisted death. The amendment said the government would be obligated “to permit terminally ill, mentally competent adults legally to end their own lives with medical assistance” within a year of the bill becoming law. This latest defeat is\u00a0the twelfth time in 25 years that the British parliament has thrown out an attempt to allow doctor-assisted death in the UK.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe House of Lords has now unequivocally rejected the latest attempt to shoehorn radical assisted suicide laws on to the statute book,” said<\/a> Danny Kruger, chairman of the anti-euthanasia and assisted suicide coalition, All Party Parliamentary Group for Dying Well.\u00a0\u201cGiven that supporters of assisted suicide have said that the House of Lords is more supportive than the [House of] Commons, this is ample evidence that assisted suicide enjoys neither momentum nor support.”<\/p>\n

READ:<\/strong>\u00a0Pro-euthanasia group wants to force religious medical facilities to commit assisted suicide<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

While assisted suicide and euthanasia advocates call doctor-assisted death “dignified” and claim it is quick and painless, evidence shows that these claims are untrue. Dr. Joel Zivot, an expert<\/a> on “physician participation in lethal injection,” said assisted dying is painful and that people may end up essentially drowning.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe death penalty is not the same as assisted dying, of course. Executions are meant to be punishment; euthanasia is about relief from suffering,\u201d he admitted. \u201cYet for both euthanasia and executions, paralytic drugs are used. These drugs, given in high enough doses, mean that a patient cannot move a muscle, cannot express any outward or visible sign of pain. But that doesn\u2019t mean that he or she is free from suffering.\u201d<\/p>\n

Drowning to death as your lungs fill with fluid is not a “dignified” death compared to natural death. The person is paralyzed while they drown, meaning their death looks peaceful to onlookers but is really anything but.<\/p>\n

Right to Life UK believes that, despite having been defeated multiple times, assisted dying proponents will again attempt to legalize assisted suicide \u2014 sooner rather than later.<\/p>\n

\u201cLike\u201d Live Action News on Facebook<\/a>\u00a0for more pro-life news and commentary!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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