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February 3, 2026

As Parliament Debates Assisted Suicide, It Should Remember “Thou Shalt Not”

What Rabbi Sacks taught.

Yesterday, Britain’s House of Lords debated a measure to liberalize the United Kingdom’s abortion laws. But while that debate goes on, another bill, debated in December, is currently languishing in legislative limbo: a bill to legalize euthanasia under certain circumstances. Rabbi Meir Soloveichik recalls the arguments put forward by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks the last time the issue arose in Westminster:

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