From Protecting the Least of Among Us: The Enduring Universal Wisdom of the Church on Euthanasia
Keynote Address to Canadian Catholic Bioethics Institute
Canadian Catholic Bioethics Institute
Given the gravity of the threat posed by legal euthanasia, it is essential that we work for its reversal in the law. But in the meantime, we must take immediate measures to protect the rights of health care providers who refuse to collaborate in or facilitate access to euthanasia.
This is not simply a Catholic issue. No one who trains and takes an oath to care for the sick should be pressed into ending the lives of the very people that they have promised to serve. . . [Full text]