Saturday, November 22, 2014

Camosy on NJ euthanasia bill in Star-Ledger | National Catholic Reporter

Camosy on NJ euthanasia bill in Star-Ledger | National Catholic Reporter by MSW,  MGB: I can see this debate forcing the alternatives of medical cannabis for cancer patients and more generous benefits for the elderly poor. That is a good thing - especially if suicide does not pass - and frankly, even if it does, most doctors will not participate just like most will not perform and abortion.  What Camosy avoids, and I guarantee that the Church does not, is the argument that when you die is God's choice, not your doctor's or your own.  Of course, that argument devolves into God the Ogre who will damn you if you do this. Let us forever keep such arguments off the table, even in sermons.  Actually, put them on the table, because if they are in the background, it will poison the whole debate. If its the only real argument against it, then there is no argument worth making.

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