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Are you on the fence about assisted suicide? Do you think perhaps it is a considerate and sympathetic choice for those in pain? If so, you might want to rethink when you see the numbers. Click the article title for more information.

“A just law is a code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law. Any law that degrades human personality is unjust. One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that “an unjust law is no law at all.” [Letter from a Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King, Jr., 4/16/1963]

Fr. Shenin Boquet, president of Human Life International, has written an excellent article on the interrelationships of the various components of the Culture of Death--Contraception, abortion, euthanasia, divorce, pornography, same-sex “marriage”, and gender ideology (to name some of the big ones). Click the article title to see the beginning of the article, and find a link to the rest of the article.

The idea that assisting a suicide shows compassion and eliminates suffering is misguided. It eliminates the person, and results in suffering for those left behind—grieving families and friends, and other vulnerable people who may be influenced by this event to see death as an escape. Click the article title for more information on true compassion.