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The John Paul II Academy for Human Life and the Family pointed out the weakness of the opposition to the legislation and blamed 60 years of failed catechetical instruction.
LONDON — A pro-life advocacy group founded by former members of the Pontifical Academy for Life has released a strongly worded statement in response to a recent vote in the U.K.’s House of Commons to legalize physician-assisted suicide.
The John Paul II Academy for Human Life and the Family pointed out the weakness of the opposition to the legislation and blamed 60 years of failed catechetical instruction after Members of Parliament (MPs) voted to pass the “Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill.”
The legislation, which passed by 319 votes to 291 and will now move to the House of Lords, came just days after MPs had granted legal immunity to any woman who procures her own abortion, even up to the moment of birth.
The academy said that although the margin of victory for the assisted-suicide bill’s proponents appeared small, the figures “fail to reflect the true scale of the defeat” for those defending life.
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LONDON — A pro-life advocacy group founded by former members of the Pontifical Academy for Life has released a strongly worded statement in response to a recent vote in the U.K.’s House of Commons to legalize physician-assisted suicide.
The John Paul II Academy for Human Life and the Family pointed out the weakness of the opposition to the legislation and blamed 60 years of failed catechetical instruction after Members of Parliament (MPs) voted to pass the “Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill.”
The legislation, which passed by 319 votes to 291 and will now move to the House of Lords, came just days after MPs had granted legal immunity to any woman who procures her own abortion, even up to the moment of birth.
The academy said that although the margin of victory for the assisted-suicide bill’s proponents appeared small, the figures “fail to reflect the true scale of the defeat” for those defending life.
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JPII Academy Condemns UK Assisted Suicide Vote as ‘Sacrifice to the Culture of Death’
The John Paul II Academy for Human Life and the Family pointed out the weakness of the opposition to the legislation and blamed 60 years of failed catechetical instruction.
