During the COVID-19 pandemic, GPs were asking whether teenagers with autism and Down syndrome wanted not to be resuscitated amid concerns about pressures on the NHS, according to revelations in the Daily Telegraph.
That disabled people are being singled out in this way ought to sound alarm bells about prejudices both within the health service and society in general.
Yet the drive towards assisted suicide, and possibly euthanasia, continues unabated and on many fronts, most recently perhaps with the Crown Prosecution Service’s proposal to drop a rule requiring “mercy killers” within families to be charged.
