Given the recent verdict on Doctor Moor, does this now set a precedent for legalised murder?
Melanie Phillips said: “I think it would be a disaster to go down the road of legalised murder, of legalised euthanasia. We would end up with the situation in Holland where people are now so desperate because of ‘voluntary euthanasia’ having got out of control, that people are now taking cards around with them saying, ‘in the event of something happening to me I do not want to have euthanasia.'” Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali said: “Human life is sacred. The job of doctors is to preserve life not to destroy it … There is very little reason to hasten death.” Menzies Campbell said: “The uncertainty which surrounds these matters is something which is not in the public interest … We should be looking now to see if there is not some legal framework that we can provide for this … At the moment we rely upon the Hippocratic oath of the doctors. I’m not sure that that is sufficient.” Margaret Beckett said: “In the end it is going to come down to very difficult moral decisions, to very difficult
