Just a warning to my friends who have been through assault– I’m going
to talk about trauma today, a little graphically, to try and help
people who have never been through it to understand. If you don’t want
to read that, you can scroll down past the picture of Jesus, to my
message for you at the end.
So, by now we’ve all heard that a 20-year-old woman in the Netherlands had herself euthanized, because of severe trauma from sexual abuse which a doctor told her was “incurable.” I’m not going to talk about the Church’s teaching on Euthanasia here. Far more competent people than me can tell you all about that. Euthanasia is a terrible injustice which opens the doors for many more. I’d rather take a moment to try to empathize with this soul. She is my sister in Christ, and she desperately wanted to die, and some doctors helped her do it. God have mercy. Why?
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/steelmagnificat/2016/05/your-body-is-the-rack-on-suicide-and-sexual-abuse/?ref_widget=gr_trending&ref_blog=grails&ref_post=catholic
So, by now we’ve all heard that a 20-year-old woman in the Netherlands had herself euthanized, because of severe trauma from sexual abuse which a doctor told her was “incurable.” I’m not going to talk about the Church’s teaching on Euthanasia here. Far more competent people than me can tell you all about that. Euthanasia is a terrible injustice which opens the doors for many more. I’d rather take a moment to try to empathize with this soul. She is my sister in Christ, and she desperately wanted to die, and some doctors helped her do it. God have mercy. Why?
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/steelmagnificat/2016/05/your-body-is-the-rack-on-suicide-and-sexual-abuse/?ref_widget=gr_trending&ref_blog=grails&ref_post=catholic