- Fri, Apr 16, 2010
- Culture and Worldview, Prolife
Physician-Assisted Suicide in Oregon?
(This article was written before Ballot Measure 16 passed in Oregon in 1995.)
(This article was written before Ballot Measure 16 passed in Oregon in 1995.)
The controversy over the decision of judges to starve her to death is not going away anytime soon—and that’s a good thing.
Dear Mom:
Can you believe it is 2023 already? I am still writing “22” on everything. Seems like yesterday I was sitting in first grade celebrating the century change!
I know we haven’t really chatted since Christmas. Sorry. Anyway, I have some difficult news, and I really didn’t want to talk about it face-to-face.
Ted’s had a promotion, and I should be up for a hefty raise this year if I keep putting in those crazy hours. You know how I work at it. Yes, we are still struggling with the bills.
Today, November 10, 1994, the outcome has been declared official. The state of Oregon became the first jurisdiction in the history of the human race to legalize physician-assisted suicide. Even the Netherlands (which commonly practices it) and Nazi Germany (which practiced it in its involuntary form) were not so bold and presumptuous as to pretend to legitimize it through making it legal. No one on the planet has ever done that until now.
“Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account.” (Hebrews 4:13)
I used this article in a course I taught at Multnomah Bible College—Soc 111, Contemporary Social Ethics.