The Nazis were condemned for their policy of euthanasia from 1939-45, so what is different now?

Apr 3, 2018 by Jill

by Alban Maginess, Belfast Telegraph:

Recently in Belfast, at a conference on end-of-life care, Tracy Harkin of the Iona Institute (NI) highlighted what she termed “the slippery slope” towards euthanasia in the world today. She referred to Pope John Paul II in 1995 in a document called the Gospel of Life, where he prophetically spoke about the “culture of death” that was engulfing Western society. He was referring to widespread abortion and the growing emergence of euthanasia being discussed in some European countries.

Pope John Paul II warned that: “Choices once unanimously considered criminal and rejected by the common moral sense are gradually becoming socially acceptable.”

At the time his words may have seemed to be exaggerated and even extreme, but when one looks at the rapid development of euthanasia, in particular in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg, and assisted suicide in Switzerland and Germany, there is little doubt today that his warning was far-seeing.

As well as contemporary Western Europe, similar measures have been introduced in some states in America and also in Canada. The gradual spread of legalised euthanasia and assisted suicide is steadily making ground and is very frightening.

In the UK the current law correctly prohibits assisted suicide and euthanasia, but there have been 10 attempts to introduce assisted suicide as a legally available procedure. The last attempt at this was in 2015 when the proposed Bill was defeated in the House of Commons by 330 votes to an uncomfortably respectable 118 votes.

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