Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition
Aleš Primc, the organizer of the referendum campaign sent the following message to their supporters, campaign team and to the media.
Let me be clear, the Slovenian people rejected poisoning their citizens to death. The referendum followed a tight message that focused on what euthanasia actually is. Here is the message from Aleš Primc:
Thank you Slovenia! The sick, the disabled and the retired won the referendum!
Aleš Primc Thank God! We are witnessing a miracle! The culture of life has defeated the cult of death!
The result of the referendum showed that in Slovenia we respect the sick, the disabled and the retired. Compassion, justice and solidarity won the referendum. Slovenia decided for life and rejected the government's health, pension and social reform, which was based on death by poisoning.
I congratulate you from the bottom of my heart and thank you to everyone! Thank you to everyone who submitted a signature, thank you to everyone who collected signatures, thank you to everyone who put up posters and distributed leaflets. Thank you to everyone who posted on social media. Thank you to everyone who encouraged family and friends to participate and vote AGAINST. Thank you to everyone who took someone to the polling station. Thank you to everyone who voted AGAINST. There were more than 370,000 of us (53.46%). The final result is not yet known, but pensioners, patients and disabled people have achieved a magnificent victory, where the Slovenian people have told them that they are valued and respected.
Yes, dear patients, disabled people and pensioners, you are not a burden, but you are precious!
Patients, disabled people and pensioners need treatment, medication and pain relief, not poisoning, forcing them to poison themselves and abuse. Thank you to everyone who made this victory possible. So that everyone, especially patients, disabled people and pensioners, can celebrate the upcoming Advent and Christmas holidays peacefully.
Thank you to the doctors and all healthcare personnel who respect medical ethics and the Hippocratic Oath, which stipulate that a doctor treats and does not kill, nor does he participate in poisoning people.
Thank you also to the parties SDS, NSI, SLS, Glas pokojencev, Zeleni and Demokrati, who opposed the Poisoning Act. Thank you to the Catholic Church, the Serbian and Macedonian Orthodox Churches, the Evangelical and Pentecostal Churches, and the Jewish community for their strong commitment to respecting God's commandment: You shall not kill. As a Christian, I am especially happy that the Catholic Church has committed itself to respecting God's commandments: You shall not kill! and Honor your father and mother, that you may live long and it may go well with you on earth, and to Jesus' commandment to Love your neighbor. Love and compassion do not poison, but help. God's commandments are the foundation of faith and the foundation of peaceful and solidary coexistence between people.
Thank you to all civil society organizations and professional associations that have publicly stated that they oppose the law that introduces the poisoning of patients.
Thank you to the wonderful coordination team of dedicated and kind-hearted people, where everyone did their job. There was really a lot of work, which we did well.
The fight was difficult. The poisoning of patients, disabled people and pensioners was supported by all government parties and the largest media. Pupils and students were indoctrinated in high schools and faculties. However, most people in Slovenia nevertheless retained their common sense and made decisions in accordance with their conscience.
The poisoning lobby has been lying, deceiving and scaring people all the time. Our task was to expose these lies and prove this with references to the law. Then they twisted their words and wanted to change the subject. The liar was already their symbol. As you know, they had a heart. The heart is a sign of life, not the poisoning that they propagated. In confrontations, representatives of the poisoning lobby were aggressive and uncultured. It is difficult to debate with such people, so we had to adapt to this. Sometimes it was quite harsh, but it always turned out that the poisoning lobby has no arguments, but is driven only by an ideological thirst for poisoning and scaring people.
The poisoning lobby is furious because the patients, the disabled and the pensioners won the referendum and not them. I understand that defeat hurts, but I don't understand why they are now threatening everyone. This shouting and threats that the poisoning lobby is now making in the major media is their process of healing the wounds after defeat. Instead of coming to terms with the fact that people do not want the patients, the disabled and the pensioners to be poisoned and that they should live in constant fear of poisoning, they continue to threaten the whole of Slovenia with poison.
I find it corrupt that Prime Minister Golob, after the people have said that they do not want poison as a health service, continues to threaten with poison and scare people. And this is a man, a Prime Minister, who stated that "people who have living, immobile parents are unlucky". Or former Minister of Health Keber, who claims that a patient towards the end of life is not a person, but only organs. You've heard: not a person, only organs. With these statements, the poisoning lobby has completely exposed itself and we have all seen what they are really about. To poison as many people as possible and to make money at the expense of health services, pensions, medicines and social services that would not have to be paid to people who would die from poisoning.
Once again, thank you all for stopping the poisoning lobby and saving the sick, disabled and pensioners from the danger of poisoning, pressure and abuse.
Best regards!
Aleš Primc
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