The woman who confessed to killing her disabled son 40 years ago has died.

Alex Schadenberg
Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition

Child euthanasia is infanticide

A UK woman who admitted to killing her 7 year old son more than 40 years ago by intentionally overdosing him as part of a campaign to legalize of euthanasia in the UK has recently passed away.

I recently learned that Antonya Cooper (77) died soon after she admitted to killing her son.

Harriett Sherwood reported for the Guardian on July 3 that:

A woman has admitted giving her terminally ill seven-year-old child a huge dose of morphine to end his suffering more than 40 years ago.

Antonya Cooper said her son Hamish had experienced “horrendous suffering and intense pain” as a result of his stage four cancer and “beastly” treatment.

“On Hamish’s last night, when he said he was in a lot of pain, I said: ‘Would you like me to remove the pain?’ and he said: ‘Yes please, mama’,” Cooper, 77, told BBC Radio Oxford.

“And through his Hickman Catheter, I gave him a large dose of morphine that did quietly end his life.”

I share sympathy concerning the suffering Hamish experienced, there were other options than killing him. Hamish needed pain and symptom management. He needed care not to be killed.

Cooper's admission to killing her disabled son is a warning as to why euthanasia should never be legal. Hamish was a child who was not capable of consenting.

Further to that, euthanasia is not legal in the UK and yet Cooper is promoting the case for expanding the law to killing children.