The Bishop of Portsmouth has today urged the people of his diocese to ask their MPs to vote against assisted suicide, warning them that the ideology behind the practice is comparable to Nazism.
In a pastoral letter called Thou Shalt Not Kill, the Rt Rev. Philip Egan, said assisted suicide was gravely immoral, an offence against God, and “evil masquerading as kindness”.
He told the faithful that their failure to mobilise against the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill would be to “capitulate to the very ideology Britain fought against in the Second World War”.
