Bishop Calls for Rejection of Assisted Dying Bill

Bishop Peter Collins is urging the public to contact their MPs and oppose the End of Life Bill, warning that it lacks proper scrutiny and poses a serious threat to human dignity. 

On Friday the 16 May, the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill is scheduled to return to the Commons for its report stage, and potential third reading. This is the first chance for all MPs to amend the bill and then vote on proposed changes. If completed, the bill will then proceed to a third reading when MPs vote on whether to support the bill in its amended form and send it to the House of Lords for consideration.

Once more the process has resisted due consideration of this bill as calls to extend this time of scrutiny have been ignored. On these ground alone I urge you once more to write to your local MP, asking they reject this bill which poses a threat to the fabric of our society when our elected representatives have not been given the chance to truly debate and understand the harm that this law would cause.

(Contact details of every MP in each parliamentary constituency within the boundaries of the Diocese of East Anglia are available here.)

We continue to pray ardently for conversion of hearts, that our society flourishes as a place of generous care and support, including palliative care at the end of life, and rejects a decline into a society which is blind to the dignity of every human being, robbing us of vital dimensions of our shared humanity.

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