The decision creating this offensive scholarship fund should be reversed immediately. Delay in doing so increases opposition to already established church positions on ordination of homosexuals, abortion rights, and other divisive issues, and thereby threatens the future of our church. Pa. Hard question ducked I was glad to read two thoughtful points of view on the assisted suicide debate in the September issue. One of these continues the age-old tradition of saving life. The other is murder, even though both actions are motivated by the desire to relieve suffering.
Many questions remain The question of choice is never solely an individual question.
Almost no one makes the decision for suicide in a vacuum, outside of a web of family and friends. It is easy to generalize that all cases of euthanasia involve people in poor health and ready to die, and to accept that every physician will always be thorough, thoughtful, caring, and compassionate, as one writer reports Dr. Kevorkian is described. But individual cases are always different. The senator condemns President Clinton's outrageous behavior but then votes to keep the national embarrassment in office. He obeys the fourth commandment but conveniently ignores the sixth as he supports the infanticide of partial birth abortion.