As with the Sexual Revolution, we must heed ‘slippery slope’ warnings about assisted suicide

There are determined moves to make assisted suicide legal in both the UK and in Ireland. In advance of any legal decision, the Irish Medical Council has removed the banon participating in the “deliberate killing” of patients from its medical guidelines.

In the UK, the Parliamentary Health and Social Care Committee has been taking evidence submitted to its inquiry into “Assisted Dying/Assisted Suicide” (the former term a relatively new euphemism for the latter). The Committee is due to publish its findings this year.