The Gatekeepers of Life
Politicians disconnected from Spirit are dangerous
When the state decides when life begins and or ends, it reveals more about its values than about the nature of life itself.
It’s been one of the most bonkers weeks in the UK politically that I can remember.
A time in which our politicians decided to tackle birth and death in the same week.
So this is about capturing a time in “history” and the madness of our “public servants.”
Please wake me up when it’s over!
What does the following reveal to you about its values when the UK state is deciding when life begins or ends?
I’d be curious to know what you sense.
On 17th June 2025, our MPs passed an amendment to decriminalise abortion for women in England and Wales beyond the current 24 week legal threshold.
With this new clause a baby can now be legally aborted right up until moments prior to its birth which could be full term.
Now please don’t get me wrong……
I’m not against abortion.
I’m not in favour of women being dragged from hospital beds to the police station because they’re out by a week or two.
I don’t want to minimise the circumstances of women who feel this is their best or only option.
I’ve no clue what it must be like to take a decision like that.
I’m sure for many it impacts their lives forever.
And to abort a baby a day or even a week before a full or near full term birth makes my stomach go into knots.
It just doesn’t feel right.
Will there be enough safeguards?
Seeing the quality of our current crop of UK MPs I very much doubt it.
This amendment was debated in under 2 hours (!!!) with fewer than 100 MPs present out of 650.
It was treated as a “procedural” footnote in a broader criminal justice bill.
How can such an important topic be fully explored and examined in under 2hrs?
“We have medicalised death and politicised birth - and in doing so, have stripped both of their mystery.”
Anon
How many politicians do you know who are connected to the mystery of life?
The miracle of birth and the miracle of death?
We tend to see birth as a miracle right but death……?
We definitely have way more superstitious thinking about death than birth.
“Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.”
Lao Tzu
And so onto the opposite end of the thread…..death.
Later in the same week, 20th June, that our MPs shifted over to “death” and an Assisted Dying Bill.
At the moment you have to go to somewhere like Dignitas in Switzerland if you want help in dying plus if a loved one accompanies you they’ve broken UK law and are subject to prosecution.
Most Brits are in favour of terminally ill people having the right to a dignified death on their terms.
As am I. I’d hate to see any terminally ill person suffer for eons especially if palliative care isn’t working. It must be horrific.
Safeguards, of course, are really really important.
So it was surreal to see the list of amendments they rejected which were designed to be safeguards.
Some examples of amendments rejected by UK MPs examples:-
Ensure patients comprehend their illness, care options, ability to change their minds - rejected
Require proof of non-coercion - rejected
Allow family members or next of kin to challenge or seek additional review of a euthanasia request if they suspect coercion - rejected
To require provision of communication adjustments for patients with hearing or vision based disabilities (hearing aids, braille, etc) in all euthanasia discussions - rejected
To close the “anorexia loophole” allowing self-starving conditions to be treated as a terminal illness for euthanasia eligibility - rejected
To ensure doctors only discuss euthanasia if the patient explicitly requests it first - rejected
To require that any time a patient mentions feeling like a burden, the process must pause and the patient offered counselling and support services before progressing further - rejected
To obligate at least one preliminary discussion with a doctor rather than it being optional - rejected
To carve out that depression or mental disorder cannot be the driving desire, and must be accompanied by a co-morbid terminal illness - rejected
To allow Doctors to opt out of euthanasia work via a conscience clause without penalty - rejected
To impose an absolute ban on assisted dying in care homes or nursing homes, requiring it to occur only in hospitals or designated clinics - rejected
There are many more rejections but it gets too depressing.
Oh and there was zero discussion about how any assisted dying would be carried out.
I hope they intend building many more prisons as I can see a load of us breaking this law especially on behalf of loved ones eg as next of kin I’ve no right to challenge the establishment?
Plus what about the Doctors for whom this goes against how they hold their Hippocratic Oath?
I would have been dead a couple of times by now
If this bill had been in place decades ago (with all its loopholes) chances are I wouldn’t be alive now.
I referring to the rejected amendment concerning depression.
In my life I’ve had several minor and certainly one major experience of what is labelled depression when I would gladly have exited this world.
However, as a society we don’t understand depression at all. It’s viewed as an illness, something to be “treated” and fixed whatever that means.
Yet for many depression is actually the call of the Soul.
And it doesn’t feel like that when you first encounter it - you feel like you’re going mad when actually what’s happening is a spiritual process involving the inner dismantling of a false self and the revealing of the True Self.
Someday I yearn for humans to be enlightened enough or at least have enough enlightened humans who can spot the signs.
We’d have places where you can go to be looked after, to be cherished and allowed to fall apart however you’re meant to because they know what’s really going on.
We’re nowhere near there yet and it’s coming as there are more and more people awakening.
Maybe it’ll even start to happen in our political arena - now wouldn’t that be amazing?
So that’s given you a glimpse into what our politicians have been up to last week.
Their political “foray” into the world of birth and death all in one week.
As one MP said “nice bookends” - yip he actually said that.
When the state decides when life begins and/or ends, it reveals more about its values than about the nature of Life itself.
So what has this revealed to you about the values of the UKs state?
Right now I notice I keep hearing the word “expediency” in my head.
They’d like to regulate us from birth to death if you excuse the pun.
We’ve become so disconnected from Spirit and the journey of the Soul.
So we impose man made or maybe better said mind-made solutions which lack depth in understanding let alone wisdom.
What if we treated birth and death less as medical events and more like passages of Spirit?
Like doorways between worlds?
We come into form and then we leave form - simple.
No big drama.
However, when the human journey is navigated solely via the human mind, regulation and devoid of spiritual connection we will get into trouble time and again.
After all mankind has been at war in some shape or form for 92% of its existence.
Not exactly a great stat…right?
What if our first breath and our last breath as human beings were revered?
I’m sure this is where indigenous tribes could teach us a lot.
I’d much rather our government avoided ruddy Davos and went to sit with shamans or wise elders in a rainforest somewhere.
Wouldn’t you?
My invitation to you:
What if you were to reflect upon birth and death as different aspects of the same thing as Gandhi pointed to?
What for you is birth? Is it a one off event or are you “birthing” yourself daily?What for you is death? The fear of death is our biggest limitation so it helps to explore it/shine a light on it eg your conditioning, beliefs etc
If you’ve some spare capacity blowing up the Houses of Parliament mightn’t be a bad shout! I’m joking!!! That comment in the current UK climate could get me jailed and I’m 100% not joking.
With love,
Alison