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Roe’s Rotten Fruit
Relevant to “The Culture of Death Will End” (Jan. 20):
In 1973, Roe v. Wade determined that the unborn are not persons, have no constitutional rights, and can be killed for convenience.
The pro-life movement, developing in opposition to this affront to morality, humanity and justice, warned of the Pandora’s Box threatening human life, which was thus opened.
In 1974, Father Paul Marx, founder of Human Life International, warned in a brochure, “The Mercy Killers,” that “zealousness in death promotion” was already under way.
He exposed the connection linking abortion, euthanasia and population control.
He noted clever slogans employed to desensitize people, and make abortion and euthanasia acceptable. “Right to choose,” “reproductive rights,” “right to die,” “right to control one’s destiny”: All sound so positive yet obviously inspired by the father of all lies — the devil himself.
What has evolved in this 35-year culture of death? More than 40 million unborn babies murdered (many by methods so barbaric they wouldn’t be used on animals), babies’ body parts and embryonic stem cells from the tiny victims sold at significant profit, for questionable, illusory experiments.
And along the human continuum of life, the chronically ill, severely disabled and frail elderly, are now being euthanized for convenience.
Hospices, once providing places for peaceful death with dignity, often withhold basic necessities of food and water to hasten death (sometimes ensuring better condition of transplant organs).
Now another movement has joined euthanasia: “palliative care,” originally formed to protect the right to life (now infiltrated by the culture of death).
Its adherents would deny personhood, thus human rights, to embryos, fetuses, newborns and those in vegetative states (i.e. Terri Schiavo), the cognitively impaired (Alzheimer’s patients), etc. All would be denied any right to life.
Euthanasia, assisted suicide, deliberate starvation and dehydration have joined abortion as fruits of the poisoned tree of Roe v. Wade.
Edwina and Gene Cosgriff
Staten Island, New York
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When the 13th annual assembly of the Florida Chautauqua Center convenes for its four-day run Jan. 31, its theme will coincide with the upcoming presidential elections.
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Delivering the keynote address for the assembly’s opening is Bobby Schindler, brother of Terri Schiavo, speaking on euthanasia. He will also sign copies of his book, “A Life that Matters.”
Chautauqua Assembly returns for 13th year
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