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BBC complicit in euthanasia advocacy BY LifeSiteNews.com by Hilary WhiteZURICH, January 25, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A British doctor, Anne Turner, suffering from a degenerative brain disease and accompanied by family members and a BBC crew, traveled to a Zurich euthanasia “clinic” to commit suicide on Tuesday. Among Dr. Turner’s last acts in life was to write a letter to her MP asking for the legalization of euthanasia and physician assisted suicide. She had made a previous attempt to kill herself using drugs and a plastic bag. Dr. Turner’s son Edward said that although the family was against their mother’s wish to die, that they supported her decision to go to the Swiss facility. He told the BBC, “It’s one thing dying from a terminal illness, but to actually choose to leave this world, and leave your family behind is an added complication to cope with.”“It was only when she went ahead with the failed attempt that we thought there is no point in messing around, let’s do it properly because it is just too cruel to do it any other way,” Edward Turner said.Dr. Turner, described by the BBC as a “family planning expert,” was able to walk with the help of a stick, but, “faced with a future in a wheelchair” decided that slurred speech and an inability to drive and take a bath unassisted were sufficient reason to end her own life. Alex Schadenberg, head of Ontario’s Euthanasia Prevention Coalition called Dr. Turner’s act “an attack on people with disabilities.” He said “The reality is that this is how a lot of people look at people with disabilities. What she is saying and asking the British Parliament to agree on, is that life in a wheelchair is not worth living, that you’re better off dead.”Calling Dr. Turner’s media-assisted suicide a “disgusting publicity stunt” Schadenberg told LifeSiteNews.com that the BBC is complicit in the act. “This is not the first time the BBC has promoted the anti-life euthanasia agenda.”Josephine Quintavalle, spokesman for the British ethics-watch organization, CORE said that as a publicly funded broadcaster, the BBC had no business promoting one side in a political fight over euthanasia. “It is clear that in return for a squalid journalistic scoop the BBC have been prepared to play the game of the euthanasia lobby.”In an email to LifeSiteNews.com, Quintavalle wrote, “On their 24 hour news coverage they only showed Dr Turner and her smiling family, providing no voice of formal opposition. Euthanasia is, thank goodness, a criminal act in the United Kingdom and it is extraordinary to see the BBC taking sides in this overt way, shamelessly promoting the agenda of the Voluntary Euthanasia Society (deceptively renamed this very week as Dignity in Dying) with only token gestures towards objectivity.” http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/doctors-assisted-suicide-a-disgusting-publicity-stunt-say-life-advocates/

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