Please note that it was the Green Party representative who proposed this legislation, and that this was the Western Australian Parliament, one state, not all of Australia.
At the Federal level, Australian Greens leader Bob Brown says restoring the rights of territory governments to introduce euthanasia is his top priority, said a separate AAP report, and Ms Gillard has promised Labor MPs a conscience vote.
The Greens are anti-human life. Any other life is good. We are bad and any way to remove us from the planet is good. Birth control, abortion, euthanasia… Old and disabled people are being encouraged to view themselves as worse than useless burdens who should remove themselves ‘for the rest of us’.
The bill would have allowed people over the age of 21 with a terminal illness and who were sound of mind to ask a doctor to end their life.
They are covering their true disgust at children, old and disabled people with a ploy about not allowing them to suffer. Abort the disabled before they have a chance to suffer, encourage them to kill themselves if they survived to be born. The truth is that they just don’t want them around.
What happened to disabled or terminally ill people have dignity and worth?
My BIL had Duchenne’s Muscular Dystrophy. He lived a lot longer than expected, surviving til just before his 22nd birthday. He was in a wheelchair by age 7 cause he could no longer walk. There was nothing wrong with his mind, so he was aware of everything happening to his body, suffering, mentally and physically every day, every hour, every minute of his life. Was his life not worth living, then? Should they have given him a lethal injection when he was diagnosed to ‘save’ him? He’d never amount to anything, accomplish anything, due to his disability. They usually die by 16. Yet, he touched more lives than I could believe, never leaving his front room. His witness was part of what brought me to the Church.
When I first met him, he was bitter and angry about it. He was very difficult to be around. You tried to be compassionate, but he was unpleasant in the extreme. Then, he went to Lourdes. He didn’t want to go. His mom sent him. He complained and cursed the whole time, especially when they lowered him into the pool.
The change wasn’t immediate, but it seemed so for me. I hadn’t seen him for a few years after he went to Lourdes. The change was dramatic. He was no longer bitter or angry. He was no longer foul-mouthed. He was pleasant to be around and he developed a wisdom far beyond his years or experience.
He had worth, great worth. I am so glad to have known him, even if he wasn’t with us for very long.
God doesn’t make mistakes. If they are alive, God has a purpose for them, even if we are unable to discern it.
