Euthanasia – A Culture of Death

MEDIA RELEASE MARCH 20 2015

Dutch Euthanasia advocate, Dr Jonquiere has completed his meetings in New Zealand. His objective in coming here was to convince the community that we should support Parliament changing the law to allow doctors to kill their patients or assist in their suicide.

The killing of the ill and disabled however is not only dangerous for the community it is morally wrong, no matter what the motive.

Every human life from the moment of conception to natural death has an inalienable right to life which may not be taken from us, nor may we give it up.

The commandment “Thou shalt not kill” was engraved in the souls of man long before it was enshrined in the Crimes Act. We ignore it at our peril. The murder of a human being is gravely contrary to the dignity of the person and is a crime against humanity.

Life is a precious gift given to us by our Creator – a gift over which we have stewardship but not absolute dominion. Euthanasia and assisted suicide are offences against life itself which poison civilisation. They debase the perpetrators more than victims and mitigate against the honour of the Creator.

Nothing or no one can in any way permit the killing of an innocent human being, whether a child in the womb or an embryo, an infant or an adult, or and old person, or one suffering from an incurable disease, or a person who is dying. Moreover, we have no right “to ask for this act of killing” for ourselves or for those entrusted to our care; “nor can any authority legitimately recommend or permit such an action. We are dealing here with a violation of a person, a crime against life, and an attack on humanity.

It was foreseen in 1977, with the passing of the Contraception Sterilisation and Abortion Act, that with the killing of” unwanted” babies that in thirty years there would be pressure for euthanasia and the killing of the disabled, those with dementia and Alzheimer’s those whose lives were deemed to be unworthy of life. Both Abortion and euthanasia come from a culture of death. Both are morally wrong.

Right to Life urges the community to resist the threat of euthanasia, which would imperil the lives of the elderly, the disabled and the terminally ill.

Ken Orr
Spokesperson,
Right to Life

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