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Allowing assisted suicide ‘would be perverse act,’ warns British archbishop

22 May 2009 · News

Allowing assisted suicide ‘would be perverse act,’ warns British archbishop As Britain’s House of Lords prepares to debate the issue in June, the president of the Department of Christian Responsibility and Citizenship of the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, Archbishop Peter Smith, said this week allowing “assisted suicide would be a perverse act.”

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