Canada’s prisoner of conscience on the new euthanasia law

Canada’s prisoner of conscience on the new euthanasia law February 11, 2016

As Canada’s new law permitting euthanasia goes into effect, the pro-life prisoner of conscience Mary Wagner–in the maximum security prison for women for counseling mothers not to get an abortion–has written a public letter.  She warns against pro-lifers seeking conscience clauses and other ways to protect themselves against the law, as opposed to standing up against its evil at any cost.  She says that times like these are occasions to “bear witness to Christ.”

From Christ’s Faithful Witness: Euthanasia in Canada: “An Opportunity to Bear Witness to Christ.” (Pro-LIfe Defender Mary Wagner):

On Feb. 6, 2015 the Supreme Court of  Canada legalized doctor-assisted suicide, but delayed the implementation for one year. Their  gruesome decision bears its wicked fruit next Saturday Feb. 6. People with grievous and irremediable medical conditions (in theory) will be able to ask their doctor to help them die. There’s no guarantee that perfectly healthy people suffering from depression will not be able to enjoy the same deadly “succor.”

Canadian Pro-life Defender Mary Wagner sits in the maximum-security prison, Vanier Centre for Women in Milton, Ontario, outside Toronto, Canada. Her crime? Pleading gently with a mother awaiting an abortion to spare the life of her child. Now the gentle Prisoner of Conscience wants us to reflect on the consequences of the new law allowing euthanasia in Canada.

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See the commentary by Douglas Farrow here.

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