Dear
SPUC supporter,
Yesterday I wrote to you about the imminent threat of assisted suicide in the UK. Will 2024 be forever remembered as a year of sorrow - the year in which doctors were permitted to kill people? Just as 1967 will forever be remembered as a year which saw the introduction of abortion.
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Our opponents' biggest weapon is their powerful propaganda machine and the false narrative it is peddling, a narrative which is being regurgitated relentlessly by the mainstream media largely without question.
Britain is facing the imminent prospect of:
- Terminally ill people being PRESSURED to end their lives prematurely
- The SCALE of the killing quickly accelerating, year-on-year
- People being coerced into opting for an assisted suicide death who are NOT dying
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SPUC is taking steps to break our opponents’ dangerous stranglehold on the media narrative.
A case in point was the recent visit to Britain of seasoned Canadian anti-euthanasia campaigner Alex Schadenberg.
Alex warned UK media and healthcare professionals about Canada’s disastrous MAiD law which has seen sick people there being offered an assisted suicide instead of medical treatment and how this horror scenario would likely unfold in Britain too should the law here change. (Click here to read more).
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I am delighted that SPUC has an additional Assisted Suicide awareness initiative!
Dr Dominic Whitehouse Tour
This autumn, SPUC has secured the services of consultant palliative medicine specialist Dr Dominic Whitehouse to speak at FOUR public meetings in Manchester, Newcastle, Reading and Nottingham:
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Dr Whitehouse (like SPUC) considers the media narrative around “assisted dying” to be ‘very one-sided’ and ‘…using emotion to cloud the truth…’ around death and dying.
He asserts that media stories about people whose relatives have died in great suffering are never complete.
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Dr Whitehouse told SPUC:
‘We are not given proper details of their illness, we never properly hear what care they had received, we never hear the real background to the social history or spiritual worries that might be making death unpleasant for that person.
And, usually, we never hear whether they were under a hospice or other palliative care service.’
He added:
‘People think that hospices shorten people’s lives using powerful medications to ease their suffering. Of course, this is not true, but it is all about perception.
Powerful drugs such as morphine and benzodiazepines are used to control symptoms such as pain, breathlessness and anxiety at the end of life.
However, in palliative care the doses used are just enough to control the symptoms.
Research shows that used this way, lives are not shortened. In fact, people may actually live a bit longer than they would without the medications.’
Will you help to expand our pro-life tours such as that of Dr Dominic Whitehouse?
A donation of £10 or £25 or £50 or £75 or £100 or £500 or £1000 or more to our work opposing assisted suicide and euthanasia could make a big difference.
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By acting swiftly to counteract the deadly narrative being spun by our opponents, your financial support could save the lives of very vulnerable people who are at risk.
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Thank you!
Yours in defence of life
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John Deighan
Chief Executive
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