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DISABLED PEOPLE THREATENED BY ATTEMPTS TO CHANGE THE LAW

For immediate release - Monday 20th August 2001

ALERT is deeply opposed to any change in the law which would single out the lives of sick or disabled people as not worth the law's protection.

Deploring some of the publicity round an attempt by Brian and Diane Pretty, who has motor neurone disease, to win a legal right for him to kill her at her request.  Andy Berry, who has cerebral palsy, said today:

"I have watched as society has gained increased respect for disabled people over the last 50 years of my life. I hope I do not see the decline of this respect over the next few months."

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