We are afraid to use the words “Stop or I’ll shoot” because we might hurt someone. Just remember the 10 year sentence because two border agents shoot an illegal (and drug smuggler) where he sits. Now California is moving toward doctor assisted suicide. Pro-life is being relplaced with practical financial ends. Eliminate new births and remove the weak, sick and elderly. Want to make sure there is enough housing available. (Ok… harsh tongue in cheek). Just remember this. Why bother making it legal for doctors (who should be helping save lives) to kill people. There still is no law for people who take their lives. Well… perhaps there is…. but who is going to prosecute a dead person. The government shouldn’t be involved in condoning a culture of death and shouldn’t waste time and resources to promote it. Doctors shouldn’t confuse their responsibility to save life and the idea of compassion.
A bill that could make California the second state in the nation to legalize physician-assisted suicide is currently heading through the legislature.
Should the “California Compassionate Choices Act” (AB 374) pass into law, it would allow doctors to euthanize patients that are terminally-ill. The bill is still in its early stages and has currently been approved by the Assembly’s Judiciary Committee. It will next be considered by the Appropriations Committee.
Several Christian voices are worried about the proposition, explaining that life is too valuable to make judgment calls on and should be preserved.
“Every year the California Legislature gets a little wackier, but this year the implications are especially sobering,” commented Brad Dacus, president of Pacific Justice Institute (PJI), in a statement. PJI is a legal defense that focuses on religious freedoms.
“The last thing government needs to do is encourage suicide,” Dacus added. “We urge Californians who value life to contact their legislators and urge opposition to AB 374.”
Perhaps this sums up the irony.
“Government should be protecting the most vulnerable members of society, not promoting their destruction,” concluded Karen England, executive director of the California pro-family grassroots advocacy group Capitol Resource Institute, in a statement. “It’s a sad day when legislators are more concerned about protecting animals than human life.”
