Today, MPs at Westminster vote on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill which would allow people in England and Wales to be helped to commit suicide.

It would be a radical and destructive change in the law, fundamentally altering our collective view of suicide and the value of human life. It is for this reason that the Catholic Herald is urging all our readers in England and Wales (Scotland decides separately) to contact their MPs to urge them to oppose this measure. We urge our readers who are themselves parliamentarians to speak against it and to vote against it.