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British Pro-Life Groups Fighting Hard to Defeat Radical Assisted Suicide Bill

The furor over a landmark bill legalizing assisted suicide in the United Kingdom is growing more acute day by day. Originally scheduled to proceed to a near-final vote in the House of Commons on April 25, resistance to the measure continues to build so that final passage now seems far from assured. Meanwhile, news stories about assisted suicide in Canada and the United States show that Britain is not the only locus of historic debates over the future of a practice that confronts a foundational p