Britain’s leading Catholic bioethics organisation says there is “widespread confusion” about the issue of legalising assisted suicide in England and Wales.
On Friday, 29 November, Labour MP Kim Leadbeater’s Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill will be voted on in the UK Parliament. Although Prime Minister Keir Starmer has supported legalising assisted suicide, he has offered members of Parliament a “free vote” on the issue.
The Anscombe Bioethics Centre, associated with the Catholic Church in Britain, says the campaign to legalise assisted suicide in England and Wales claims that a clear majority of the public are in favour of it, but their latest report “reveals that the headlines do not reflect a far more complicated reality: only a minority strongly support legalisation, fewer than half want MPs to vote in favour, and very few people think this should be a priority for the Government".
