Found time in the quiet hush this morning to write a couple of letters on the subject of euthanasia. We currently have two cases before the courts in Canada, one in British Columbia and one in Quebec, with individuals and groups trying to get euthanasia made legal in this country. We had a private member's bill before the House of Commons not too long ago that was soundly defeated, but the advocates for euthanasia will not give up.
So I wrote a letter to the Attorney General with a copy to my MP, expressing my concerns. A small thing to do in light of the following statements I read also this morning quoted in "For God or for Tyranny" by Walid Shoebat, former terrorist:
"How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause?"
Spoken by Sophie Scholl of the White Rose resistance group shortly before she was executed by the Nazi's.
and:
"If it is once admitted that men have the right to kill 'unproductive' fellow-men even though it is at present applied only to poor and defenseless mentally ill patients, then the way is open for the murder of all unproductive men and women: the incurably ill, the handicapped who are unable to work, those disabled in industry or war. The way is open, indeed, for the murder of all of us when we become old and infirm and therefore unproductive."
From a sermon given by Bishop Clemens August von Galen, Sunday August 3rd 1941 in St. Lambert's Church, Munster.
Perhaps writing a letter seems such an insignificant thing to do, and that is the reason why so few write one and do nothing at all.
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