The disastrous state of our public finances, the growing weight of debt, the need to find new financing could well have the indirect effect in a few semesters of incidentally put on the front of the stage the theme of "right to die with dignity."
The technique used to advance this type of issue (abortion, euthanasia, IVF, etc.). is well known. It operates round of media, a particularly shocking drama (girl pregnant after a rape, disability monstrous suffering parent rock) is exposed to fallacies based fallacies (the Veil law presented as a means prevent illegal abortions or to save a child in the throes of a life doomed to misfortune) is finally proposes a way supposedly middle between two extremes that constitute the complete prohibition and liberalization without control. The famous National Consultative Ethics Committee excels in the latter role.
In a frightening paradox
, abortion and euthanasia are seen as goods, while their opponents are accused of insensitivity. This refusal to call things by their name already revolted the prophet Isaiah: "Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness" (Isaiah 5, 20).
As reported by physicians and nurses Christians, we no longer force in many French hospitals, to bring the suffering of sick or elderly. Ask ourselves. Where does this inability of our society to (u) be the person who suffers? It comes at the end, we meet the Holy Father in Spe Salvi, our inability to give ourselves a sense of our own suffering:
"A society that fails to accept its suffering members and is not capable of contribute, through compassion, to ensure that suffering is shared and bear it inwardly is a cruel and inhuman society. However, the company can not accept its suffering members and support them in their suffering, if everyone is not itself capable of this and, secondly, they may not accept the suffering of others if he himself personally fails to find meaning in suffering, a path of purification and maturation, a path of hope. "
The defense of life, which should soon raise again the Catholics, is not only a matter of arguments, speeches and demonstrations. It will first by accepting the mystery of the cross in our own lives.
Paul Verley
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