UK Euthanasia Activist Physician Thrown Out of Medical Council
LONDON, September 27, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Dr. Michael Irwin, former chairman of the UK- based Voluntary Euthanasia Society (VES), who was arrested on charges of conspiracy to aid a terminally ill patient kill himself in 2003, has been disciplined by the UK’s General Medical Council, which struck his name off the medical register. Irwin admitted to police that he conspired to kill Patrick Kneen, a retired farmer and Isle of Man resident. He later told London Telegraph reporters that Kneen died of his terminal prostate cancer before he was able to administer the lethal medications. Although a doctor could face […]
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