A Victory Nonetheless
With the constant drum beat of information about the seemingly unstoppable push for mercy killing across the world, it was heartening recently to see the defeat of the Leadbeater assisted suicide bill in England. Kim Leadbeater had chosen to advance the third assisted suicide bill that England has seen in approximately 12 years. This shows the tenacity of the pro-death forces in our western world. There was nothing new in this bill to any Canadian and in fact it may seem to be not nearly as dangerous as the MAiD or mercy killing regimen now in place here in Canada.
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Truth Wins Out
Sometimes newspaper headlines can actually tell us a lot about underlying truths. About a week ago, in the Toronto Star, there was an attention-grabbing story of a preborn child who had life saving surgery while still in the womb of his mother. The title began with “Unborn Baby has Remarkable Surgery”. This is from a newspaper that has been militantly pro abortion and pro death for many decades. Isn’t it surprising however that the underlying truth about what that pregnancy meant and what and who that surgery was performed upon would almost thoughtlessly come out?
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Positive Signs in the West
The ancient Saxon King Canute was encouraged by his courtiers to see himself as all powerful. He ordered his throne to be brought to the edge of the waves on the shore, and he ordered the waves and the tide to stop. Obviously, it didn’t. Sometimes it can seem that we are engaged in as useless an endeavor as King Canute faced with our growing tide of mercy killing and euthanasia and the ceaseless onslaught of the killing of the preborn. Many people are just prone to give up.
We should not.
In Alberta, the Smith government has decided to go against the tide. They are trying to restrict and indeed perhaps reverse much of the extension of mercy killing and euthanasia. They have put forward a new act - Bill 18 the Safeguards for Last Resort Termination of Life Act.
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