Columbia University Doctor Warns Assisted Suicide Makes Life 'Disposable' Amid Legalization Push
A Columbia University physician is warning that the growing push to legalize medical assistance in dying across the United States could create a 'slippery slope' in which life becomes 'disposable' — a concern shared by disability rights advocates, palliative care physicians, and religious leaders who argue that legalizing suicide as a medical treatment fundamentally changes the relationship between doctor and patient. The warning arrives as several states debate assisted suicide legislation and as the practice continues to expand in Canada, where critics say the system has already begun to push vulnerable people toward death rather than treatment.
Read Full Story at Fox NewsThine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
— Psalm 139:16
The question of when and how life ends is not merely a medical or political one — it is fundamentally a question about who has authority over the gift of life. Scripture teaches that every person is fashioned by God with purpose, and that our days are written in His book. The push to make death a medical 'treatment' challenges this view at the deepest level.