"We are really worried about the way in which the case was described by media. Some of them, like the BBC, said it was a "right to die". It is a very misleading way of presenting this case, because Hannah Jones and her parents don’t ask for euthanasia or assisted suicide". Paul Tully, the secretary of the "Society for the Protection of Unborn Children", one of the most important organizations of the Movement for life, commented the story of Hannah Jones to SIR with those words. The thirteen-year-old from Marden, near Hereford, in the South West of England, refused heart transplant, which was necessary for her to stay alive. "It is complicated, risky and uncertain surgery. The result might have been negative and Hannah might have died of that", said Tully. "A therapy may be too heavy for a patient but useful for the survival of another, and the border line has to be drawn case by case". According to the secretary of SPUC, many media presented the case as the story of a "right to die", because a remarkable campaign to legalize euthanasia is going on in the United Kingdom. "Mary Warnock, member of the House of Lords, talked about a "duty to die" a few weeks ago. This duty would concern elderly people, who become a burden for the people curing them. It is an extreme position, which is nevertheless emblematic of the direction which the United Kingdom is taking".
