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AHEAD of the first reading in Parliament this week of a bill that would give terminally ill people in England and Wales the right to end their lives, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, centre, repeated the tired old “slippery slope” argument, and two other senior clerics — Mark Davies, the Bishop of Shrewsbury, right, and Catholic Cardinal Vincent Nichols — stuck their holy noses into the issue.

Given that less than of half the UK population profess to be Christian, and two-thirds if Britons support assisted dying, they, and others deeply opposed to a change in the law should, to put it plainly, shut the fuck up!

The last time the topic was voted on at General Synod in 2022, only seven percent of the Church of England’s national assembly said they supported a change in the law, according to the BBC, which pointed out that this “contrasts with the strong majorities in favour of the law reflected in public polling.”

But the imbecile Welby sets no store by public opinion:

There will be people who look at that and say the Church is totally out of touch, that they totally disagree with us, and say they are going nowhere near a church, but we don’t do things on the basis of opinion polls.

Meanwhile Bishop Davies warned that the bill threatens “a momentous change to society in both its care and attitude to the sick and the aged”. In a letter he predicts dire consequences if Parliament chose a “dark and sinister path”.

With a clear misunderstanding of bodily autonomy and the right people should have to choose their manner of dying, he burbled:

As we see populations ageing across western countries with a diminished number of younger people to support them, this is an especially dangerous moment for politicians to open the door to euthanasia: the medical killing of the sick, the disabled and the elderly.

And this garbage frrom Nichols:

Once assisted suicide is approved by the law, a key protection of human life falls away. Pressure mounts on those who are nearing death, from others or even from themselves, to end their life in order to take away a perceived burden of care from their family, for the avoidance of pain, or for the sake of an inheritance.

According to Dignity in Dying, Lord Falconer’s Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults Bill will have its Second Reading on Friday, November 15.. Members of the House of Lords will debate assisted dying for the first time since Baroness Meacher’s Bill was debated in 2021.

Dignity in Dying says the Bill presents:

A robust, evidence-based proposal for law change that seeks to provide compassionate choice to dying people who urgently need it and introduce stronger protections for everyone in England and Wales.

Hat tip: Malcolm Dodd (Davies report).

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