In Case You Missed This Last Week: Canadian Court Rules Doctors Can Kill Legally
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Listen, I'm not making light of those circumstances where someone's physical, emotional condition causes them to despair. Physical and emotional pain can certainly drive one to desire death to life. I've personally encountered such cases. I empathize with those who find themselves in such circumstances. While I believe committing suicide to be a grievous sin (yes, I just used the "S" word here), I also know that someone can be so distraught that their culpability can be minimized. But allowing doctors to kill people on request is an altogether other matter. Perhaps a simple reference might help us understand why.
We're all familiar with Nazi death camps. Millions were exterminated. But what you also need to know is that these didn't just spring into existence during World War II. Their roots lay in the days before the Nazis came to power. German law allowed physicians to kill those considered unfit for life. It started with those considered mentally incompetent or unfit and progressed from there. The stage had been set for the death camps years before the first bricks were laid at Buchenwald and Auschwitz.
Going back a few more years, you might want to familiarize yourself with the "Eugenics" movement that began in the U.S. and the UK. The principles of this movement served as the foundation of those first German laws that permitted doctors to take life rather than preserve it.
While we'll certainly hear protests that this is different, that these people want to die, we assure you once you take the first step on this slippery slope, you will inevitably begin a slide that goes in only one direction: down. God help us.
Thus Canada joins the ranks of countries which have become a destination of choice for those who want to die. Congratulations to our neighbors to the north. Of course, here in the U.S. if you don't want to pull out your passport and head north, you can just drive or fly to Oregon or Washington to find a physician who will legally kill you.OTTAWA, February 6, 2015 (LifeSiteNews.com) — In a momentous ruling this morning, Canada’s highest court unanimously ruled to open the door to a doctor helping kill someone nearing the end-of-life stage, a ruling comparable to the sweeping Morgentaler ruling 27 years ago that allowed a doctor to kill someone at the earliest pre-born stage of life.In Carter v. Canada, the Court overturned a previous law prohibiting assisted suicide, in effect reversing the previous 1993 Rodriguez decision in which it said the state’s obligation to “protect the vulnerable” outweighed the rights of the individual to self-determination. The ruling makes Canada join the ranks of Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Belgium, as well as Oregon and Washington, in allowing assisted suicide.
Listen, I'm not making light of those circumstances where someone's physical, emotional condition causes them to despair. Physical and emotional pain can certainly drive one to desire death to life. I've personally encountered such cases. I empathize with those who find themselves in such circumstances. While I believe committing suicide to be a grievous sin (yes, I just used the "S" word here), I also know that someone can be so distraught that their culpability can be minimized. But allowing doctors to kill people on request is an altogether other matter. Perhaps a simple reference might help us understand why.
We're all familiar with Nazi death camps. Millions were exterminated. But what you also need to know is that these didn't just spring into existence during World War II. Their roots lay in the days before the Nazis came to power. German law allowed physicians to kill those considered unfit for life. It started with those considered mentally incompetent or unfit and progressed from there. The stage had been set for the death camps years before the first bricks were laid at Buchenwald and Auschwitz.
Going back a few more years, you might want to familiarize yourself with the "Eugenics" movement that began in the U.S. and the UK. The principles of this movement served as the foundation of those first German laws that permitted doctors to take life rather than preserve it.
While we'll certainly hear protests that this is different, that these people want to die, we assure you once you take the first step on this slippery slope, you will inevitably begin a slide that goes in only one direction: down. God help us.
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