Were there to be no support in the whole history of ethical and moral thought, were there no acknowledged confirmation from medical science, were the history of legal opinion to the contrary, we would still have to conclude on the basis of God's Holy Word that the unborn child is a person in the sight of God. He is protected by the sanctity of life graciously given to each individual by the Creator, Who alone places His image upon man and grants them any right to life which they have.
Tuesday, October 11, 2016
First Belgian child euthanized, slippery slope morphs into cliff
Hillary's pretensions,
however, are far wider than those of Henry VIII. Henry merely wanted
the Church to permit him to divorce so that he could remarry and have,
he hoped, a male heir. Hillary wants America to separate itself not
only from religion, but also from science, reason, and a knowledge of
history. It is science and reason that tells us that abortion is the
killing of a human being. The Catholic Church affirms, but does not
invent this. Hillary, therefore, makes herself an enemy of science and
reason.
The world recently witnessed the canonization of Saint Mother Teresa of
Calcutta, a holy woman who truly exemplifies what it means to by
"moved by mercy". Her witness of hands-on caring for those most
unwanted and unloved by society speaks volumes, and it challenges us to
allow the Lord to use us as His instruments in caring for the most
vulnerable and those who have no voice.
Such
an "edict" of the Holy Father was interpreted to be cruel and unusual
punishment for the ordinary Catholic who could not afford more than two
or three children. Couples subjectively found themselves in an
impossible situation and since God does not demand the impossible, this
ruling of the Pope was deemed not obligatory, except for the heroic
person.
With these examples of non-terminal patients choosing death,
and-startlingly-of children having death chosen for them, the
protections around human life appear near to non-existent. Admittedly,
the suffering involved is severe enough to give us pause, but as the
slope of preferring death to life becomes steeper, I worry that the
philosophical grounds undergirding these cases create more of cliff than
a slope, a cliff that actually has no basis for affirming the value of
life at all.
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The world recently witnessed the canonization of Saint Mother Teresa of
Calcutta, a holy woman who truly exemplifies what it means to by
"moved by mercy". Her witness of hands-on caring for those most
unwanted and unloved by society speaks volumes, and it challenges us to
allow the Lord to use us as His instruments in caring for the most
vulnerable and those who have no voice.
With these examples of non-terminal patients choosing death,
and-startlingly-of children having death chosen for them, the
protections around human life appear near to non-existent. Admittedly,
the suffering involved is severe enough to give us pause, but as the
slope of preferring death to life becomes steeper, I worry that the
philosophical grounds undergirding these cases create more of cliff than
a slope, a cliff that actually has no basis for affirming the value of
life at all.
