Faith and Freedom Network

As the case of Terri Schiavo continues to play out in public view before the world, some are asking exactly what is wrong with euthanasia? This belief holds that a person who is suffering from some incurable and agonizing disease or circumstance have the right to be killed, kindly and humanly.

This belief can also argue that a child born deformed and obviously quite unable to live a meaningful life should not be allowed to grow up. Or, it might hold that a child who is mentally and incurable challenged might be deprived of any meaningful life, therefore it would be in his or her best interest to not be allowed to live.

Here’s the problem with Euthanasia:

1. How do you define the Area? The area in which euthanasia may be used. When does a person reach that stage? How is the word “incurable� defined?
2. Who decides? Who is most qualified to make the decision as to when to end a person’s life? What about motives, i.e., live-in girlfriends, money, etc.
3. If Euthanasia is allowed, it leads itself to enormous abuse. Much like abortion.

Apart from these and other practical difficulties with euthanasia, it is wrong. It breaks the sixth commandment: Thou Shalt Not Kill.

There remains the deep-seated conviction that it is basically wrong to give anyone the power of life and death.

It is legally indefensible, practically impossible, morally wrong, and theologically unjustifiable.

Medicine had not advanced to the levels we enjoy today, thus our Founding Fathers did not deal with some of these issues in the ways that we must do so today.

However, they staked the entire future of the United States of America on our ability to govern ourselves in accordance with the Ten Commandments.

“We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not on the power of government, far from it. We’ve staked the future of our political institutions upon our capacity … to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.� James Madison, 1778, to the General Assembly of the State of Virginia.

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Gary Randall
President & Chairman
Faith and Freedom Foundation