How the British Medical Association was manipulated
With so much at stake, more ought to be known about the shabby and undemocratic route to the BMA’s decision. The true story is that hundreds of delegates were not clamouring to help ease the wretched and dying out of their pain. In a shameless display of political chicanery, supporters of euthanasia manipulated the meeting into adopting a position which was clearly opposed to the wishes of the majority. Bolshevik apparatchiks could not have been more adroit — or more cynical.
Here’s what really happened, according to doctors who attended the meeting.