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United Kingdom: thousands of letters to MPs to say no to the assisted suicide bill

Thousands are the letters that Christian devotees and nonbelievers, encouraged by pro-life movement associations and by the Catholic Bishops, sent to the British MPs in the last year to ask them to vote against the legislation that gives the green lights to assisted suicide. Last June, it was opposed to by over one thousand doctors and, in the months before, by over 1,200 Christian leaders who signed an open letter. The new bill, approved by the House of Commons, i.e. Westminster lower House, last June, is being discussed right now by the House of Lords, that can amend it but not reject it. The law would give the green lights to assisted suicide and means that mentally-competent, terminally-ill adults who have six months or less to live can ask to put an end to their lives if authorised by two doctors and the assurance they have not been pressurised or coerced into it. In Wales, such legislation will have to be passed by the local Parliament, the “Senedd”, before it can be enforced. Believers and nonbelievers have been encouraged to write to the members of the “Senedd”, asking them to reject the new bill, by Mark O’Toole, Catholic Archbishop of Cardiff, in a release issued by the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales. “If the legislation is passed by the Welsh Parliament, the more vulnerable people will be endangered nor is there any appropriate protection in the bill for those doctors who want to claim conscientious objection and for those hospices and nursing homes that do not want to supply assisted suicide”, the Archbishop wrote.

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