Thursday, Jan.19, 2006
4:15 p.m.
To the Editor:
The Supreme Court's January 17th decision in Gonzales
vs. Oregon concerning assisted suicide opens up the culture of death to
the old, the sick, and the handicapped in the same way that Roe vs. Wade
did to the unborn in 1973. It excludes a whole class of people from the
protection of law.
By stating that the use of federally controlled drugs for
the purpose of assisting suicide is not "drug abuse" because the physician
is not facilitating drug addiction, it opens the door to the wide
spread legalization of euthanasia. In a civilized society, drugs are meant
to cure and relieve pain, not to harm and kill people. Surely that was the
basic motivation behind the Federal Contolled Substances Act, as Justices
Scalia, Roberts, and Thomas alluded to in their dissent.
Unfortunately, the Court's decision gives the green light
to those who would use medicine to kill rather than heal. From a moral
perspective, this is a horrific abuse of God's law, and, sadly, fulfills the
1968 prophecy of Pope Paul VI in Humanae Vitae when he accurately
predicted the consequences of a generally accepted contraceptive mentality.
When are we going to see that all of these life-issues are intrinsically
related?
Rev. Michael Phillips
St. Wenceslaus Church
Iowa City, Iowa
337-4957
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