A Bill that is to be debated in the House of Commons later this month (Friday 29 November) that would legalise assisted suicide in this country.
The Anscombe Bioethics Centre (formerly the Linacre Centre for Healthcare Ethics), which is the national Catholic bioethics centre for the UK and Ireland), has some new resources on this
There are also useful resources on the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales Website – it is extremely important that concerned citizens write to their MP to make their voice known. This vote could go either way, and we know that MPs are getting many letters from the assisted suicide lobby.
We hope the resources we have produced are useful. Please do include a note about them in the parish newsletter and encourage people to contact their MP.
For parishes in Scotland, note that while the Bill may not apply directly in Scotland, Scottish MPs have a vote, and the results of this vote will have a great impact on the debate over a similar Bill in Holyrood. So it is important that Scots contact their Westminster MP to oppose this dangerous proposal.
| Prof David Albert Jones MA (Cantab) MA MSt DPhil (Oxon) FHEADirector, Anscombe Bioethics CentreProfessor of Bioethics, St Mary’s University, Twickenham Research Fellow, Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford |
