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Human life has no inherent value, says Baroness activist for euthanasia
LifeSiteNews.com – October 27, 2010
Human Life Itself has No Value: Britain’s Leading Bioethicist and Assisted Suicide Campaigner
By Hilary White
LONDON – Unlike gold and platinum, life does not have value in itself, a member of the House of Lords and a campaigner for assisted suicide said in a televised debate last week. Medical professionals need to change their attitude towards assisted suicide, to take into account the wishes of patients who request to die, said Baroness Mary Warnock, known in Britain as the “philosopher queen” of bioethics. “There is no moral justification why the opinions of judges, lawyers and doctors should override those of the patient [who has expressed a wish to die],” she said. “The mission of doctors is to help people, to make their lives better not worse. Sometime death is more desirable than life.”
Mary Warnock is known as Britain’s leading bioethicist and proponent of assisted suicide. She recently commented that the refusal of doctors to participate in assisted suicide is “genuinely wicked.” Her books include “Easeful Death: Is there a case for assisted dying?” and “Making Babies: Is there a right to have children?”
Warnock said that to examine the issue from the law alone was legalistic and trivialised the issue: “behind the law is a moral judgment,” she said.