"Its been said, and I think its very true, that verbal engineering precedes all social engineering,” said Rita Marker, the executive director of the Steubenville, Ohio-based International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide, in a recent interview. The “social engineering” to which she referred is the move in the United States and abroad to legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide....Marker, the author of the bestseller, Deadly Compassion: The Death of Ann Humphry and the Truth About Euthanasia, is something of an expert on end-of-life matters. And suicide has become an important California issue. Last month, state assembly members Patty Berg (D-Eureka) and Lloyd Levine (D-Van Nuys) reintroduced their “Compassionate Choices” bill, which would legalize assisted suicide, into the legislature.
The name, “Compassionate Choices,” is perhaps an example of the “verbal engineering” to which Marker referred, while the Oregon “Death with Dignity” law, which the California bill mirrors, is an example of the “social engineering.”
According to this article, death with dignity means death but not always dignity.
Via California Catholic Daily
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