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Outrage as Church of England Backs Calls for Severely Disabled Babies to Be Killed at Birth
By Douglas W. Phillips
Nov 15, 2006 - 5:25:00 PM

“How can the Church of England say that Christian compassion includes the killing of disabled babies either through the withdrawing or withholding of treatment or by active euthanasia?”


The future of Western Civilization may come down to our view on life. We know that all those who hate God, love death. Conversely, those who love God, will love life.

By now, most of us realise that the battle between life and death is hitting very close to home. Many Christians have already conceded the premise that unwanted or inconvenient children should be prevented from coming into the world by separating life from love through various drugs or procedures that pervert the natural function of the womb or cut off the seed. Others are now considering whether it is a “mercy” to let Granny starve to death when her quality of life is not what they want it to be.

At Vision Forum, we gave our heart and soul to fight for the life of a little baby named William Goforth. We have continued to fight for the lives of other children in imminent crisis situations through our legal staff and our Life and Liberty Medical Fund. Often these battles are very unpopular. Some of the most vitriolic opposition comes from professing Christians themselves who don’t want to be inconvenienced by caring for life. But we fight these battles because we believe that life is precious. We fight them because we believe that the most unwanted and unlovely lives to the eyes of man are precious in the eyes of God.

Through the Witherspoon School of Law and Public Policy, and elsewhere, we have warned that when Christians concede on the foundational principles of life and biomedical ethics, when they accept the lie that some life is not worth living, or that some of the helpless should not be helped—that the groundwork has been established for Margaret Sanger’s hellish vision of a “brave new” eugenics-driven society.

Consider now the decision by leaders of the Church of England to call for Christians to allow the starvation of little babies with severe handicaps and disabilities (..and notice the careful double-speak about some lives not being worth living).:

According to The Daily Mail

The Church of England has broken with traditional dogma by calling for doctors to be allowed to let sick newborn babies die.

Christians have long argued that life should be preserved at all costs - but a bishop representing the national church has now sparked controversy by arguing that there are occasions when it is compassionate to leave a severely disabled child to die.

And the Bishop of Southwark, Tom Butler, who is the vice chair of the Church of England’s Mission and Public Affairs Council, has also argued that the high financial cost of keeping desperately ill babies alive should be a factor in life or death decisions.

The shocking new policy from the church has caused outrage among the disabled.

A spokeswoman for the UK Disabled People’s Council, which represents tens of thousands of members in 140 different organizations, said: “How can the Church of England say that Christian compassion includes the killing of disabled babies either through the withdrawing or withholding of treatment or by active euthanasia?

“It is not for doctors or indeed anyone else to determine whether a baby’s life is worthwhile simply on the grounds of impairment or health condition....”

...In the Church of England’s contribution to the inquiry, Bishop Butler wrote: “It may in some circumstances be right to choose to withold or withdraw treatment, knowing it will possibly, probably, or even certainly result in death”.

The church stressed that it was not saying some lives were not worth living, but said there were “strong proportionate reasons” for “overriding the presupposition that life should be maintained.”

The bishop’s submission continued: “There may be occasions where, for a Christian, compassion will override the ‘rule’ that life should inevitably be preserved.”


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This commentary originally appeared on Doug Phillips's blog. It is reprinted with permission.


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