A bishop in the UK is warning an attempt to legalize assisted dying working its way through the House of Lords sends the message “that some lives are no longer worth fighting for.”

Baroness Molly Meacher’s private member’s Assisted Dying Bill is set to get its second reading – where it will be debated in the House of Lords – in the autumn.

The proposed legislation would allow terminally ill patients in their last six months of life to commit medically assisted suicide with the permission of two doctors and a judge.

Bishop Patrick McKinney of Nottingham said it is “one of the most pressing moral issues of our time.”

“What this means in practice is that seriously ill people, across England and Wales, can be supplied with lethal drugs by NHS healthcare professionals, with the deliberate intention of helping the patient to end their life. Enthusiasts for a change in the law like to euphemistically label this controversial proposal as ‘assisted dying’, when in fact what they are demanding is assisted suicide for seriously unwell, vulnerable people,” the bishop said in a video statement.