Thursday, January 8, 2009

The 'wicked' doctors who refuse to kill


Dame Mary Warnock, one of the most prominent advocates for the culture of death in Britain, has called doctors who would refuse to help a terminally ill patient commit suicide "genuinely wicked."

This is a woman who came to Ireland last year to tell us of our "moral obligation" to allow embryo research and who has spoken in the past of frail, elderly people having a "duty to die." Journalist Melanie Phillips has described Warnock as a 'monster' and in many ways she symbolises the warped, twisted ideology Britain has embraced over the past forty years. She is very little different from the fashionable eugenicists of the twenties and thirties, figures such as Marie Stopes and Margaret Sanger who were Nazi sympathisers and yet are lauded as altruistic souls who just wanted to help everyone. As John Smeaton puts it: "Reasonable-minded citizens should be genuinely frightened of Mary Warnock."