The Bishop of London, Sarah Mullally, has urged MPs to halt the passage of a bill to legalise assisted suicide in England and Wales.
Bishop Sarah – the former Chief Nursing Officer and the Church’s Lead Bishop for Health and Social Care – called on parliamentarians to ask themselves searching questions about the kind of socitety we want to live in before the Third Reading vote in the Terminally Ill Adults (End of LIfe) Bill in the Commons on Friday.
She said: “MPs have the power to stop the passage of this Bill, in the face of serious concerns from the medical profession, palliative care specialists, and those facing the end of life.
“If enacted, this Bill would arrive amidst hugely inequitable access to palliative care and an NHS on life support.
“The potential for abuse and uninformed or coerced decisions is enormous.