The Catholic bishops of England, Wales and Scotland have redoubled their effort to fight off attempts to legalise assisted suicide in the UK.
Scotland’s bishops joined Church of Scotland and Muslim leaders in signing a statement at the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh, emphatically opposing the private member’s Bill of Liam McArthur to allow terminally-ill patients to demand that doctors and nurses help them to kill themselves.
On the same day, the bishops of England and Wales published a strongly-worded submission to the select committee on assisted suicide in Westminster, warning MPs and peers that a change in the law would put the lives of the vulnerable in grave danger.
