[wagglebee]

Eluana Englaro update

The Vatican is exhibiting perfect moral clarity.

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ROME (AFP) - The Vatican on Friday firmly condemned an Italian court decision allowing a father to remove his comatose daughter from life support, saying "the right to die does not exist."

"Life is sacred, the right to die does not exist," the Vatican's "health minister" Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan said in an interview published by the Italian daily La Stampa.

On Thursday, Italy's highest appeal court upheld an earlier ruling that doctors could stop artificially feeding Eluana Englaro, 37, as it had been proven that the road accident victim's coma was irreversible.

"To stop giving food and drink to Eluana is tantamount to committing murder," said Barragan, who heads the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Health Pastoral Care.

"It means letting her die of hunger and thirst, condemning her to a monstrous end," he added.

[wagglebee]

An excellent commentary on the culture of death in America.

Thread by me.

Survival of the Fittest (Eugenics and Abortion)

The United States government was founded on these principals: God created all humans equal and gave them certain unalienable rights, such as Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness"; and the government's purpose is to secure these rights, ensure domestic tranquility, promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our Posterity. Since its conception in 1776, great strides have been made in this nation regarding people's civil rights, but for millions of unfortunate people in America some of these strides have been in the wrong direction...

[Lesforlife]

Prayers their influence and moral clarity prevail!

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!