HUMANITY
> Who should live? Who should die? And who should decide?
30 March 2005
> Cloning and the abolition of man
13 August 2004
> Mum should know if her daughter is having an abortion
02 August 2004
THE PITILESS UNIVERSE OF PLANET WARNOCKOver the years, [Baroness Warnock] has effectively set herself up as the country’s national arbiter of which kind of human beings should be allowed to live and which must be sentenced to die – ranging from handicapped babies to patients who are in a persistent vegetative state. In an unabashed echo of eugenic thinking, she has declared that some lives are more worth living than others — and of course it follows that she knows which ones fall into which category. Only last week she called for rules which would ensure that the majority of the most premature babies do not survive. On pitiless planet Warnock, human beings are no longer thought to have any value as soon as they become unhealthy and dependent — a universe in which only the whole and healthy seem to qualify as human beings worthy of respect. Accordingly, her support for euthanasia has gone far beyond endorsing people’s ‘right’ to expect doctors to end their lives. It was instead, she said, the duty of people to kill themselves — not only if they were terminally ill, but merely frail — in order not to be a burden to others. | There are not yet any 'opinionated' columns for this section of conservativehome
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