England and Welsh Bishops: chief prosecutor is ignoring will of Parliament on assisted suicide

Posted by Kendall Harmon

he bishops of England and Wales have accused Britain's chief prosecutor of encouraging people to break the country's suicide laws.

They said Keir Starmer, the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), was creating categories of people whose lives would be legally considered less worthy of protection than those of others in society.

The bishops said his interim policy for prosecutors in cases of assisted suicide stigmatised the disabled and the mentally and terminally ill and could send out the message that it was acceptable to help such people to kill themselves.

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