It is true they are all disabled people. However they are individuals with a point of view, not representatives of any Disabled People's Organisation. For example, this new arm of the DiD campaign, is led by wheelchair user Greg Judge. He is listed as a member of staff and is therefore paid by DiD to represent the organisation's core mission and values. Hardly representative!
NDY UK, on the other hand, is a network of disabled people working largely pro bono and who have been mandated to represent the views of many disabled people. There is a real difference.
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Dr Kevin Fitzpatrick OBE |
DiD know what the evidence shows - from Holland, where children over the age of 12 are entitled, and disabled babies are euthanized because of their disability, or because of their parents' suffering, when the law was first introduced for exactly the kind of 'desperate, hard case' DiD keep promoting to gain public sympathy - from Belgium where people who are in need of support and care are euthanized - and where the current discussion to extend euthanasia to children is proceeding but where 'We all know that euthanasia is already practiced on children.
Yes, active euthanasia' according to the head of the intensive care unit of Fabiola Hospital in Brussels. He made his comments to the Senate's Judicial and Social Affairs Committee at a February 21 hearing 2013. Belgium, where if you are becoming blind you can opt for euthanasia, or if the healthcare system botches your sex-change operations your care options can include death by lethal injection, and where 'studies…demonstrate that 32% of people killed under the Belgian law were killed without consent and without their own request, in breach of a fundamental condition of that law'(as pointed out by Alex Schadenberg of EPC).
DiD are promoting themselves as a caring organisation who offer the 'voice of reason'. They are using a handful of non-representative disabled people to promote the idea that disabled people agree with them. The facts do not support this assertion, real disabled activists are opposed to the law being changed and nothing I have read, seen or heard makes me think otherwise.