Following the second rejection of an assisted suicide bill in the French Senate last month, an archbishop has said that not everything that is presented as progress turns out to be beneficial, and warned that the legislation could still be “definitively adopted.”

Speaking to Crux Now, the Archbishop of Tours and vice president of the country’s bishops’ conference, Vincent Jordy, drew a comparison between the climate crisis and assisted suicide to demonstrate that what was once considered progressive can turn out to be harmful.

“Over the past 150 years, we have developed industrial progress that is now turning against humanity and gradually making the earth uninhabitable. What once appeared to be progress is ultimately not as obviously beneficial as it seemed. But it took time to realize this,” he said.