Despite warnings, assisted suicide bill advances in Hawaii

[Heddi]

http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/despite-warnings-assisted-suicide-bill-advances-in-hawaii-98707/

Honolulu, Hawaii, Mar 13, 2017 / 04:00 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Although critics said an assisted suicide bill would put vulnerable people at risk and change the nature of medicine, the Hawaii Senate has given it strong support.

“Physicians are seen as trusted health advisors, and this bill undermines this relationship, creating suspicion and uncertainty for Hawaii’s patients,” said Deacon Walter Yoshimitsu, executive director of the Hawaii Catholic Conference.

“The Senate’s approval of assisted suicide ignores the tremendous strides we have made as a community to promote the value of hospice and palliative care to care for those with terminal illnesses and to ensure everyone has access to quality end of life care.”

Deacon Yoshimitsu said the Catholic conference has worked to uphold the sanctity of life.

“Those in favor of assisted suicide have framed this as an issue about individual autonomy and freedom of choice, when it fact it is nothing more than a veiled attempt to make it legal for physicians to murder their patients with immunity,” he said.



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Bishop Larry Silva of Honolulu wrote a Jan. 31 letter to the Catholics of Hawaii linking assisted suicide to the “throwaway culture” criticized by Pope Francis.

Eva Andrade, president of the Hawaii Family Forum, there was “strong opposition” to the assisted suicide bill and the number testimonies submitted against the bill “far exceeded” those in favor.

[trotsky]

1. People have the right to make their own end-of-life decisions.

No church should be able to make rules for everyone.

[Heddi]

2. They love making rules for other people

Rather than leaving the decision up to each person, they feel that they have the moral authority to make decisions, literally, from cradle to grave not just for catholics, but noncatholics as well

but don't forget, they're persecuted.

[Act_of_Reparation]

3. If you talk to any conservative culture warrior about "indecency", you hear the same thing.

They want to scrub the airwaves clean because they can't compete with popular culture for the attention and respect of their own children. The Church thinks so little of its flock it can't even entertain the notion of them exercising an ounce of self-restraint.

Because they can't trust their own followers to abstain from suicide, their only recourse is to oppose the option being available for anyone.