Pro‑abortionists use precisely the same tactic when they lump contraceptives, abortifacients and abortion together. It has accomplished many of its goals by using scare tactics involving dramatic anecdotes of people in severe, unrelieved pain, who are being “kept alive by machines” with forests of tubes and beeping devices surrounding them, interfering with their peace and, above all, the vaguely-defined term “quality of life.” Pro‑euthanasia groups have also confused lawmakers and the public by intentionally blurring the lines between direct and indirect euthanasia and a natural death. The pro‑euthanasia lobby has learned this lesson well. Īll of the elements of the Culture of Death - from contraception to abortion to homosexual rights - have made their advances primarily by emphasizing the “hard cases,” which usually make up from one to three percent of all of those affected. The Vatican’s Declaration on Euthanasia states, “By euthanasia is understood an action or an omission which of itself or by intention causes death, in order that all suffering may in this way be eliminated”. The word is derived from two Greek words: “Eu,” meaning “easy,” and “thanos,” which means “death.” The term “euthanasia” means any action committed or omitted for the purpose of causing or hastening the death of a human being after birth, usually for the alleged purpose of ending the person’s suffering.
Pro-euthanasia groups are also portraying the current state requirements of three requests for euthanasia as “burdensome,” and there is much agitation to jettison all such prerequisites and establish “euthanasia on demand.” The Definitions and Types of Euthanasia
Across the Atlantic, we can see the future of euthanasia - there are almost no limits on the practice in the most liberal European nations of the Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland.Īs with both contraception and abortion, we are now hearing louder and louder calls for courts to resolve the “patchwork quilt of laws” across the states and to legalize euthanasia nationwide - but only for the “hard cases,” of course. Under the guise of caring for those who are suffering and lonely, many Americans are now demanding “ physician-assisted suicide.” The most liberal states - Washington, Oregon, California and Vermont - have already legalized the practice, but just for the “hard cases,” of course. The elders are often shuttled off to a “retirement facility” by their children, where they slowly begin to believe that life might not have very much purpose. This means that many sick and older parents are abandoned by their children, who are themselves struggling with fractured families and resultant poverty. Meanwhile, the social demotion of the “traditional” family as the norm has been greatly accelerated by the availability of widespread divorce, pornography and pretend homosexual “marriage.” Of course, these methods of birth control failed millions of times every year, leading to a demand for the legalization of abortion - again, only for the emotional “hard cases.” These exceptions expanded until the complete legalization of abortion in 1973.Īs we know, both contraception and abortion strongly contribute to the breakup of families by enabling sexual promiscuity among both married and unmarried people. First, contraception was legalized for heart-rending, heavily-publicized (and rare) exceptions, and then for more and more cases, until it was legalized by decree of the United States Supreme Court in 1968. Margaret Sanger and her peers strongly emphasized the “hard cases” in their relentless agitation for the legalization of birth control. When they develop a strategy that works, they stick with it.
The moral test of government is how it treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children those who are in the twilight of life, the aged and those in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.