The door to legal death was just opened in Umbria. This is the 5th region of Italy after Tuscany, Sardinia, Emilia-Romania and the Aegean Venice, which has adopted government on "voluntary death with medical assistance". In practice, it is about administering a lethal medicine on your own.
The Regional Council voted 11 to 6 (with 3 abstentions). The regional president, Stefania Proietti herself, admitted that these were not matters that the region should regulate and called for clear rules at national level. Meanwhile, the region did its job.
Bishops of Umbria reacted with bitterness and disappointment
In a statement, they wrote plainly: alternatively of defending life, it legitimizes its liquidation. The law is to defend life as a priceless gift, not pave the way for its destruction. They recalled the words of Leon XIV: protecting life from conception to natural end is the foundation of all another law. The answer to the suffering of the elderly, the sick and the lonely is not the pill of death, but the real proximity, care and solidarity. They besides pointed to the apparent fact: the palliative care and hospice strategy in Italy is inactive insufficient. alternatively of building it, regional politicians choose a shorter path.
Step backwards towards the doctor's profession
The Italian Catholic Doctors Association (AMCI) warns that aid in suicide must not be treated as a regular regional wellness service. This is simply a serious step backwards from the doctor's profession. The Ditelo Sui Tetti network recalls: freedom is not about abandoning those who suffer. Society heals and companions, not turns death into a consequence to the fragility of life. No 1 should scope the point where he wants to die simply due to the fact that he has not received relief in pain, support, or concrete help.
Full of federalism of death
Pro Vita e Famiglia is clear: it's time to end this creeping federalism of death. It cannot be that there are different rules in 1 region than in another, due to the fact that it is civilian and criminal law, not the organisation of healthcare. The state is silent and the regions are lowering the threshold 1 by one. The effect is simple: life loses protection and death becomes 1 of the options in the public wellness service offer.
Bishops of Umbria finish the message with Leon XIV's words spoken in France, which has late legalized euthanasia: the temptation to commit death under false compassion must be firmly rejected. You can't consider death a average thing. Not everything that is lawful is morally right.
Churches in Umbria declare that they will proceed to defend life and service those in difficulty. The region chose a different path.
There are circumstantial people behind each specified bill. The grandma who whispers she doesn't want to be a burden. Grandpa, who after a night without sleep of pain says he's had enough. These people don't request a syringe or a form today. They request someone's hand in theirs, a doctor who won't turn his eyes and make certain their life inactive has value, even erstwhile it's weak, slow and difficult. Good law is like an arm you can thin on at the worst moment. It can't be the exit door with guilt for living.
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Source: KAI
