British Section of the World Federation of Doctors Who Respect Human Life

Responding to an announcement by the Minister for Constitutional Affairs, on 22nd April, that a revised Mental Incapacity Bill would be introduced before the summer recess, SPUC said "The adjustments to the Bill announced by Lord Filkin do not amount to any material lessening of the threats posed by this draft legislation," and were "cosmetic changes designed to make legalised euthanasia by omission respectable."

Mr. Robin Haig, a solicitor and chairman of SPUC, wrote in the Universe on 14 March 04: "The government has declared that euthanasia involves some positive action, and thus, by that definition, killing by omission (e.g. failing to feed someone) is deemed not to be euthanasia. The result is the same, however - a dead body."