Just four days after the Assisted Dying Bill was introduced into the House of Lords, Bishop Mark Davies of Shrewsbury issued a pastoral letter in which he denounced the draft legislation as an “attempt to make those who have always been ‘care-givers’ into ‘life-takers’.”
The urgency with which the bishop acted is worthy of imitation. Catholics throughout England and Wales would indeed do well to oppose the Private Member’s Bill of Baroness Meacher at every stage of its progress for the stakes are extremely high.
