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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Hayden Vernon

UK’s top Catholic bishop urges faithful to lobby MPs to oppose assisted dying

Cardinal Vincent Nichols in the Vatican
Cardinal Vincent Nichols said people near to death could feel under pressure to end their lives. Photograph: Franco Origlia/Getty Images

The UK’s highest-ranking Catholic bishop has urged churchgoers to lobby their MPs to oppose proposed changes in the law around assisted dying in England and Wales, warning people: “be careful what you wish for”.

In a letter to be read out in the churches of his diocese, Cardinal Vincent Nichols said the proposed changes risk bringing about “a slow change from a duty to care to a duty to kill” for medical professionals.

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