“A right to die can become a duty to die. Being forgetful of God belittles our humanity. The questions raised by this bill”, which legalises assisted suicide, “go to the very heart of how we understand ourselves, our lives, our humanity”. With this pastoral letter that will be read out in all the churches of his archdiocese this weekend, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, Primate of England and Wales, invites the faithful to engage in the battle against the so-called “Leadbeater’s bill”. This is the name of the Labour MP who, on 16 October, will propose to the British Parliament a bill intended to give the green light to assisted suicide. There is a real chance that the House of Commons will approve the new legislation which is supported by Prime Minister Keir Starmer and by Labour and Conservative MPs. In his letter, the Archbishop of Westminster warns that under the new legislation there is a risk that many adults with vulnerabilities or disabilities will feel pressured to die. “The radical change in the law now being proposed risks bringing about for all medical professionals a slow change from a duty to care to a duty to kill”, Cardinal Nichols wrote. “The evidence from every single country in which such a law has been passed” shows that assisted suicide and euthanasia are “more and more available and accepted”.