Everyone reading this newspaper escaped death by abortion. The question is, will we escape death by euthanasia? As the killing of unborn children becomes acceptable in so many "advanced" cultures, the pressure to take the lives of the elderly, or injured, or very ill, or the simply inconvenient (in terms of effort and money required to assist their daily living) grows. Once the right to life is violated in its beginning, it is only logical that the right to life will be violated towards its end. Put another way, if you can kill people when they are very young, why can't you kill them when they are very old? This dynamic is already present in the Netherlands, where citizens who don't want to be killed when they are in the hospital can hire individuals to help protect them from hospital staff.
When we protect the lives of the unborn, we protect everyone's lives-including our own. Let us build a culture of life, where everyone's life is respected from conception to natural death.
Rudy Poglitsh
rpoglitsh@live.com
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