This charity stated in a letter dated 4/6/2019: “Aspire is a charity that offers advice to people who have sustained a spinal cord injury and helps them move from injury to independence. To this end we have no connection with medical experimentation of any sort and so any donation would have no chance of funding abortion services or research using human embryos.”
On assisted dying this charity stated: “Aspire is against this, although we don’t have a written policy expressing this. However, it is the charity’s stated aims to help people live as full a life as possible regardless of the degree of their spinal injury. Should you choose to search the internet you will find several quotes from Alex Rankin, our Director of Services, criticising the depiction of the assisted suicide of a tetraplegic character in the popular TV series, Emmerdale. Our view was that the series pandered to stereotypes and wasn’t representative of the life that someone could lead post injury.”