In Oregon, at least, that question has already been answered. In 1973, when Roe v. Wade made it legal to abort children, opponents warned a casual or cavalier attitude in dismissing life at its beginning would give way to a coarsening attitude toward all life. Theologians, church leaders and philosophers said the dying would be next. And then the sick, disabled and merely unwanted. They were right on all counts.
Legal euthanasia is here in the form of physician-assisted suicide.
In the last two years, Oregon physicians have assisted at least 43 people in an early death. It is called active euthanasia and so far at least, all the cases have been voluntary. The Declaration says that no one can in any way permit the killing of an innocent human being, whether a fetus or an embryo, an infant or an adult, an old person, or one suffering from an incurable disease, or a person who is dying. In addition, we are not permitted to ask for this act of killing nor can any legal authority permit it. Our faith says that to do so is against the divine law, an offense against the dignity of the human person, a crime against life itself.