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(Church Times) Archbishop Welby and Lord Carey part ways on assisted dying

Posted on July 12, 2014 by Kendall Harmon

The Archbishop of Canterbury has warned that proposals to change the law on assisted dying are “mistaken and dangerous”, in an intervention drawing on painful personal experiences.

His intervention came on Friday night, just a few hours after the Daily Mail published a piece by the former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey, setting out why he planned to support a change in the law, despite his previous fierce opposition.

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