The Archbishop of Canterbury has warned that changing the law on assisted dying would put the most vulnerable at risk.
In a significant intervention, the Most Reverend Justin Welby urges anybody with reservations to lobby their MPs to vote against highly contentious reforms to the law.
It comes as an historic Private Member’s Bill is introduced to the House of Commons on Wednesday, with MPs to debate and vote on allowing assisted dying for the first time in a decade.
Writing in the Daily Mail, the Church of England’s most senior bishop said ‘the pressure to end one’s life early would be intense and inescapable’ if the law is reformed.
And, while recognising that the proposed Bill comes ‘from a position of compassion’, Dr Welby warned that ‘we can never be sure that assisted suicide will be safe from abuse’.
The Archbishop of Canterbury has warned that changing the law on assisted dying would put the most vulnerable at risk
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