Bogotá, Colombia, Oct 29, 2008 / 10:51 am
Bishop Julio Cesar Vidal Ortiz of Monteria in Colombia said this week a proposal by Senator Armando Benedetti to legalize euthanasia is “a grave attack on life.”
The bishop explained that the legalization of euthanasia, which supporters call the “right” to a “peaceful death,” “could be corrupted by people interested in the death of someone else,” as in the case of a son or daughter who might apply euthanasia to a parent in order to receive an inheritance.