Fr. Shenan J. Boquet: Killing the Vulnerable, Sick, and Helpless

“So-called ‘compassionate’ euthanasia holds that it is better to die than to suffer, and that it would be compassionate to help a patient to die by means of euthanasia or assisted suicide. In reality, human compassion consists not in causing death, but in embracing the sick, in supporting them in their difficulties, in offering them affection, attention, and the [moral] means to alleviate the suffering.” –Samaritanus bonus

Pro-life activists have long warned that the most predictable consequence of legalizing euthanasia and assisted suicide will be the stripping away of the guardrails protecting the weakest, most vulnerable, and marginalized members of society.

We warned this would lead to a litany of horrors.

This is precisely what happened in nations like Belgium and the Netherlands, which were among the first to legalize these inhumane practices. However, no nation seems to be as determined to plumb the depths of the depravity introduced by legalized euthanasia and assisted suicide as Canada.

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