UK Catholic Medical Association urges Parliament: oppose pro-assisted suicide bill

The United Kingdom Catholic Medical Association, representing Catholic healthcare professionals across the nation, is urging Parliament to oppose a proposed bill to legalize assisted suicide. If it were legalized, the Association warns, the relationship between physician and patient would be at great risk of fundamental change.

“We believe it is wrong for doctors to help somebody to deliberately kill themselves and that such actions have no place in a compassionate society,” CMA President Mike Delany stated Nov. 22. ---More...