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Bishop calls Italy’s new right-to-die law a ‘loss for everyone’

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OSV News) — The head of the Tuscan Bishops’ Conference said the passage of a new law in Italy allowing medically assisted suicide was “not an achievement, but a defeat for everyone.”

In a statement published by the Italian bishops’ conference Feb. 11, Cardinal Augusto Paolo Lojudice of Siena, president of the regional bishops’ conference, said the new law passed by the Regional Council of Tuscany “will not limit our action in favor of life, always and in every case.”

“To the chaplains in hospitals, to the religious sisters, to the religious brothers, and to the volunteers who work in hospices and in all those places where every day people are confronted with illness, pain, and death, I say do not give up and continue to be bearers of hope, of life; despite everything,” he wrote.

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