Originally published at The Crux
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With the threat of legal assisted suicide looming larger every day in the UK, the president of the Scottish bishops’ conference has appealed to Catholics to contact their MPs to try and stop the bill.
The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill is scheduled for a vote in the House of Commons on Sept. 11.
Reintroduced by Lauren Edwards MP in June, the proposed legislation would make it legal for terminally ill adults in England and Wales to receive assistance to end their lives.
Bishop John Keenan of Paisley, and president of the country’s bishops’ conference since 2024, called on Catholics to contact MPs and “ask them, respectfully and urgently and, in your own words, to protect vulnerable people and support better palliative and hospice care by voting against” the bill.
“Our opposition to assisted suicide is rooted in compassion. Every person, from conception until natural death, possesses an inviolable dignity as one made in the image and likeness of God,” Bishop John Keenan also said.
“Illness, frailty, disability, dependence or fear must never lead society to conclude that some lives are no longer worth living,” Keenan added.
A similar bill was defeated in March this year in Scotland,
