(ANSA) – ROME, FEB 09 – We are witnessing “the promotion, at international legislative level, of euthanasia and assisted suicide, a fact that represents a real paradigm shift in the care of the sick in the terminal stages of life”, as if were “lives to be discarded”. This was stated by the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, card.
Luis Ladaria, in a message to the participants of the conference ‘Euthanasia, lives to be discarded?’ organized by Pro Vita & Famiglia, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition and Family Day. The Vatican hopes that debates like this “can offer an authentic contribution to a true culture of life”.
The dean of cardinals, Giovanni Battista Re participated in the conference: “Those who suffer and find themselves in extreme situations – he said – certainly need treatment and drugs, but they also need love, closeness, listening and support.
Euthanasia goes exactly in the opposite direction because it is an inherently unjust and cruel act. Any cooperation in euthanasia or assisted suicide is a grave sin because it is against life “.
From the associations come words of thanks for the Pope’s words, condemning euthanasia and assisted suicide: “We are grateful for the very clear words of the Holy Father against euthanasia and assisted suicide.
We hope that they can arouse in all parliamentarians a supplement of reflection on the process of the Bazoli Consolidated Text “, says Jacopo Coghe, vice president of Pro Vita & Famiglia.” The words of the Pontiff – says Massimo Gandolfini (Family Day) – urge us to the utmost commitment so that the therapeutic abandonment of the frail and the administration of state death never become a reality in Italy “. (ANSA).
Source: Ansa
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