News from Richard Worth

National MP Richard Worth still thinks he is the MP for Epsom, if his web site is anything to go by. Someone go tell Rodney Hide, who is the MP for Epsom. Mr Worth has a newsletter every week, he calls it Newsworthy. In one edition this month, he comments on euthanasia, saying,

The tragic suicide of Nelson voluntary euthanasia campaigner Ralph Vincent, who ended his own life at his home after a small stroke, has prompted calls to re-examine the so-called "right to die". There are many issues at the heart of the euthanasia debate, and the debate itself is important.
Frequently used terms such as "the right to die" are misleading. What voluntary euthanasia is really about is the "right to kill", or giving someone a legal right to end another person's life on the grounds that the person wanted to die.

Hardly "newsworthy". It wasnt his comment either, he actually flogged this off the Maxim Institute's Real Issues, which says

The tragic suicide of Nelson voluntary euthanasia campaigner Ralph Vincent, who ended his own life at his home after a small stroke, has prompted calls to re-examine the so-called "right to die". There are many issues at the heart of the euthanasia debate, and the debate itself is important.Frequently used terms such as "the right to die" are misleading. What voluntary euthanasia is really about is the "right to kill", or giving someone a legal recourse to end another person's life on the grounds that the person wanted to die. Campaigners want legal protection for the person assisting suicide, not legal protection for the person attempting suicide. Neither the government nor society has any interest in, or ability to, prosecute a corpse.

Hat tip Gareth Robinson