DUBLIN (OSV News) – The professional body that regulates and ensures professional standards for doctors in Ireland rejected a report from a parliamentary committee calling for the legalization of assisted suicide. The euthanasia debate is rolling throughout Europe, with French President Emmanuel Macron calling it a possible “law of fraternity,” and British members of Parliament being pressured to legalize assisted dying. The Royal College of Physicians of Ireland said March 20 that it opposed “the introduction of any legislation supportive of assisted suicide because it is contrary to best medical practice.” It comes after a special committee of the national parliament — known as the Oireachtas — issued a report recommending the introduction of assisted suicide for a person diagnosed with an illness or medical condition that is classified as “incurable, irreversible, progressive and advanced” and likely to cause death within six months. Diarmuid O’Shea, president of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, said, “Dying and death are part of a continuum of care for any person with a chronic or life limiting illness… made possible by the delivery of compassionate, supportive, and expert care.” Meanwhile, with increased pressure on members of Parliament in the United Kingdom to change the legislation on assisted suicide, Archbishop John Wilson of Southwark, England, in a March 22 pastoral message said life is a gift from God and is not a commodity we “manipulate and dominate.”