On the 21st the Times reported on UK doctor Howard Martin's killing of patients whom he deemed "had such dreadful suffering". Significantly, the good (?) doctor said he did them in "not because they wanted to die" but because he decided their suffering was too great.
Though the connection may not be immediately clear, this is one of the bitter and inevitable fruits of abortion. Once a society accepts the killing of innocent human beings near the beginning of life, there is no logical reason not to kill them at any other time. Once the principle that innocent life is inviolate is violated, it takes only some "difficult" cases and clever words to open the hunting season on everyone else. Note also that at least some of Dr. Martin's victims did not wish to die; he simply arrogated the power of life and death to himself. One shudders at the partially-realized spectre of those in authority simply deciding others need to die, whether they want to or not. Shudder a second time that the British courts acquitted Dr. Martin of his crimes. It is bad enough when someone commits murder; it is even worse when government, whose first and most important job is to protect its citizens, sets their murderer scot-free.
Martin's appeal to "Christian compassion" in murdering his patients is complete hogwash. Christian ethics never allow the deliberate taking of innocent life. Pain, both physical and mental, can be managed. Dr. Martin appears to have forgotten that his calling includes killing pain, not patients.
Swaziland, beware of the creeping (and largely western-imported) culture of death. Respect life for the gift that it is, from conception to natural death.
Rudy Poglitsh
rpoglitsh@live.com
more letters at http://letterstotheTOS.blogspot.com
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