CNA Staff, Mar 11, 2021 / 04:00 am
Ireland’s Catholic bishops said on Thursday that a bill seeking to legalize assisted suicide is “fundamentally flawed.”
In a March 11 statement after their spring plenary meeting, the bishops said that the Dying with Dignity Bill was “at odds with the common good.”
“This bill is fundamentally flawed. It cannot be repaired or improved and we call on Catholics to ask their elected representatives to reject it entirely,” they said.
The bill was presented to the Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Oireachtas (Irish legislature), on Sept. 15, 2020. It seeks to allow doctors “to provide assistance to a qualifying person to end his or her own life.”