MAN HAS NO RIGHT TO TAKE LIFE
Received Tuesday, 10.40 p.m. 5 LONDON, Oct. 7. ; Buthanasia was condemned • by j Cardinal Griffin in a speech at Bir- } mingham. He said doctors should not | allow sentimentalism to- mislead- them j and permit the profession to he so degraded that they hecame State ! execntioners. God made the inflexihle rule that no one had the right to take life or allow others to take i't for him. It was man's duty to see that this rule was not broken. If anyone wished to judge whether a principle was right or wrong, he should look where it- led. The Nazis had prescribed both euthanasia and the sterilisation" of the unfit. The world knew of the resultant horri'ble concentration camps. The State had no right to legaliSe euthanasia or voluntary sterilisation. They were against God's law which even a statesman had a dnty to obey.
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Chronicle (Levin), 8 October 1947, Page 5
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