Three helpful reviews about the Purdy judgement

Sleepwalking into euthanasia

Writing in The Tablet, David Albert Jones, director of the Centre for Bioethics and Emerging Technologies at St Mary's University College, Twickenham, explores the impact of the Purdy ruling:

While not changing the law, last week's judgment on the Purdy case gives a fillip to the euthanasia movement. Here, a professor of bioethics warns that it should be a wake-up up call to opponents of assisted suicide, as legislation could find its way onto the statute books by stealth...

Don't book a ticket to Dignitas just yet

Journalist Dominic Lawson writes in The Times addressing the issue of the Purdy ruling:

I'll say one thing for the euthanasia lobby: they are masters of media manipulation. Somehow they managed to persuade the press and broadcasters that the law lords had demanded that parliament reverse its opposition to the legalisation of so-called "assisted suicide". This collective misinterpretation of last Thursday's judgment on the case of Debbie Purdy...

Debbie Purdy should have been careful what she asked for

Religion Editor of the Telegraph Media, George Pitcher, looks at the Purdy decision:

Yesterday, the Law Lords instructed the Director of Public Prosecutions to give her that clarification. The judgment has made her "ecstatic", she says. But such joy may be premature. She should have been more careful what she asked...

See also the Law report on Purdy

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