{"id":137959,"date":"2025-06-20T17:40:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T21:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=137959"},"modified":"2025-06-20T18:42:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T22:42:44","slug":"church-times-so-called-assisted-dying-vote-poses-risk-to-most-vulnerable-says-bishop-of-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=137959","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) [So-called] Assisted-dying vote poses \u2018risk to most vulnerable\u2019 says Bishop of London"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Parliament voted for the law to change on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/assisted-dying\">assisted dying<\/a>\u00a0\u201cin the face of mounting evidence that it is unworkable and unsafe and poses a risk to the most vulnerable people in our society\u201d, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/bishop-of-london\">Bishop of London<\/a>, the Rt Revd Sarah Mullally, said on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Responding to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2025\/27-june\/news\/uk\/assisted-dying-bill-clears-the-commons\">the decision<\/a>&nbsp;by the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/house-of-commons\">House of Commons<\/a>&nbsp;on Friday afternoon to progress the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2025\/27-june\/news\/uk\/assisted-dying-bill-clears-the-commons\">News, 20 June<\/a>), Bishop Mullally, who is the lead bishop on health and social care, warned that, \u201cif enacted, this legislation would come into force amid serious shortfalls in adult social care, a postcode lottery in palliative care and well documented pressures on the NHS, multiplying the potential risks to the most vulnerable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt does not prevent terminally ill people who perceive themselves to be a burden to their families and friends from choosing \u2018assisted dying\u2019. And it would mean that we became a society where the state fully funds a service for terminally ill people to end their own lives but, shockingly, only funds around one third of palliative care.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2025\/27-june\/news\/uk\/assisted-dying-vote-poses-risk-to-most-vulnerable-says-bishop-of-london\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cEvery person is of immeasurable and irreducible value, and should be able to access the care and support that they need.\u201d<br><br>Read the Bishop of London&#39;s statement following the third reading of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill.<br><br>&#x1f4dc; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/74PloAghZ2\">https:\/\/t.co\/74PloAghZ2<\/a>.<\/p>&mdash; The Church of England (@churchofengland) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/churchofengland\/status\/1936107432620507242?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 20, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parliament voted for the law to change on\u00a0assisted dying\u00a0\u201cin the face of mounting evidence that it is unworkable and unsafe and poses a risk to the most vulnerable people in our society\u201d, the\u00a0Bishop of London, the Rt Revd Sarah Mullally,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=137959\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,389,635,438,199,168,104,151,108,424,34,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-death-burial-funerals","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-secularism","category-theology","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137959"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137963,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137959\/revisions\/137963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}