CNA Staff, Sep 15, 2020 / 00:00 am
In response to an assisted suicide bill that could soon be passed in Spain, the Spanish bishops' conference called Monday for a palliative care law, saying that "there are no patients that cannot be cared for, even if they are incurable."
"It's bad news, because human life is not a good anyone can dispose of," the bishops said in a Sept. 14 statement, of a bill to offer broad legal protections to some forms of euthanasia and assisted suicide, now under debate in the Spanish legislature.
The statement noted that "insisting on" the right to euthanasia "is typical of an individualistic and reductionist vision of the human being" and a concept of "freedom unrelated to responsibility."
Proponents of euthanasia affirm "a radical individual autonomy and at the same time call for 'compassionate' intervention by society by means of medicine, stemming from an inconsistent anthropology."