U.S. Bishops2019-09-252019-09-252015-10-131995-09http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/228322"At the very heart of our respect for human life is a special and persistent advocacy for those who depend on others for survival itself. Those most dependent lie on the opposite extremities of their life's journey, near the start and near the finish. Because they are helpless to provide for themselves, they are utterly at the mercy of those closest to them. Many are welcomed by those to whose care they have been entrusted. Others are not so welcomed. Since the legal floodgates were opened in 1973 by the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wade, an abortion mentality has swept across our land and throughout our culture. The language and the mindset of abortion—presented in terms of unlimited choice, privacy, and autonomy—pervade our entertainment, our news, our public policies, and even our private lives. Wrapped so appealingly in the language of self-determination, cloaked so powerfully in the mantle of federal authority, is it any wonder that the logic of Roe has been extended to apply beyond the unborn? Is it any wonder that it appears so explicitly in our public and private conversations about euthanasia?"engWith permission of the license/copyright holderbioethicscatholic churchfaithlifeabortioneuthanasiaReligious ethicsMethods of ethicsPhilosophical ethicsBioethicsChristian denominationsRoman CatholicBiblical TheologyBible (texts, commentaries)New TestamentPreprint