Physician-Assisted Suicide
Once again, a so-called “End of Life Options Act,” that would legalize physician-assisted suicide in Delaware has been introduced. This time it’s called “HB 140 –The Ron Silverio/Heather Block End of Life Options Law.” Efforts on the part of the Catholic community, other faith groups, the Medical Society of Delaware, the Delaware Health Care Association, and advocates for persons with disabilities, kept this legislation from becoming law in 2017 and 2018. We need to do so again this year and are asking for your help.
Visit www.cdow.org/StopAssistedSuicide for info and to contact your legislator!
Once again next year, proponents of assisted suicide will likely try to legalize this dangerous practice in Delaware and Maryland, putting some of our most vulnerable at risk and devaluing the sanctity of human life because of age, illness, or disability. The Office for Respect Life in the Catholic Diocese of Wilmington is actively engaged with others in Delaware and Maryland to oppose PAS legislation. What can you do? Be sure to sign up for the latest legislative updates and alerts provided by the Delaware Catholic Advocacy Network at www.cdow.org/DCAN or the Maryland Catholic Conference at www.mdcathcon.org and watch this page for more information.
Maggie was diagnosed with brain cancer and strongly opposes assisted suicide. Hear this story of a strong woman with much left to give to her family and society. She has a powerful story of hope and courage – and that no doctor can put a timetable on anyone’s life.
Resources
- Whose Life is it Anyway: Thoughts on Physician-Assisted Suicide – by Sister Constance Veit, l.s.p.
- For additional information, including videos, click here.
Adoption
I Lived on Parker Avenue: A Short Documentary Film About Adoption
Adopted at birth and raised in Louisiana, David Scotton is on a journey to Indiana to meet the birth parents he’s never known. His tattooed birth mother, Melissa, and reserved birth father, Brian, anxiously wait for him, concerned David will reject them for decisions they made before he was born. I Lived on Parker Avenue is a short documentary about a mother’s agony in choosing what’s best, the joy of a couple starting a family, and a young man’s search for where his life began.
USCCB Resources
- Accompanying Expectant Mothers Considering Adoption (en español)
- An Adoption Love Story (en español)
- The Blessing of “Unanswered Prayers”: An Adoption Story
- The Family in Service of Life: An Adoption Story
Death Penalty/ Capital Punishment
The dignity of human life must never be taken away, even in the case of someone who has done great evil. Modern society has the means of protecting itself, without definitively denying criminals the chance to reform.
Pope John Paul II, Evangelium Vitae, 1995