Catholic, Anglican and Jewish leaders unite to oppose assisted suicide Bill

Catholic, Anglican and Jewish leaders have united to express their “profound disquiet” at a Bill to legalise assisted suicide.

They said the Assisted Dying Bill of crossbench peer Baroness Meacher would put vulnerable people at greater risk of abuse.

The intervention of Cardinal Vincent Nichols, the president of the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales; Anglican leader Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis came shortly before the Second Reading debate of the Bill in the House of Lords.