UK: Bill on assisted suicide. Card. Nichols to Catholics, “write to your MPs, ask them to vote against it”

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In a pastoral letter that will be read during the upcoming weekend in all parishes of the Archdiocese of Westminster, which he leads, Cardinal Vincent Nichols has called once again on the Catholic faithful to contact their MPs and urge them to vote against the Bill legalising assisted suicide. In his message, the Catholic Primate of England and Wales also criticised the work of the UK Parliament since the Bill was drafted in a hasty and superficial manner with no sufficient safeguards to protect human life. The new legislation, which is completing its passage through the UK Parliament and will enter its final stage, the so-called “third reading”, between the end of April and early May — when MPs will have the final opportunity to reject it — grants terminally ill adults the right to end their lives after obtaining permission from two doctors. “As Catholics we have maintained a principled objection to this change in law recognising that every human life is sacred, coming as a gift of God and bearing a God-given dignity. We are, therefore, clearly opposed to this Bill in principle, elevating, as it does, the autonomy of the individual above all other considerations”, the Archbishop of Westminster wrote. “I, together with all the Bishops of England and Wales, am writing to ask your support in urging your MP to vote against this Bill at that time. There are serious reasons for doing so”.

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