Roman Catholic Church says these people should not be indifferent to sorrow and misery. A Christian should do what he can, he should not forget the mother and family.
If the mother allows the baby to live she could put the baby up for adoption. This way she has allowed a life and knows that the baby will have a better life and would be loved. This may be difficult for the mother because she will always know she has a child somewhere.
The baby has a soul and it should be defended so the mother would be having mercy on its soul by allowing it to have life and come into this world. Life is sacred so it should be allowed to live and breed.
God created man and woman in his own image, we are a reflection of god so that means killing of the unborn child is like killing God or Jesus but allowing to the unborn child to live shows that we have mercy on God and Jesus and it shows we care and love Jesus and God.
Euthanasia Arguments for and against
Some Christian may respond by allowing Euthanasia to happen so that the terminally ill are able to put an end to all of their suffering.
Euthanasia maybe acceptable because it can help those who are ill and unable to lead a proper life, put an end to all of their pain and suffering. For instance, the Diane Pretty story. She went to court to try and legalise her wish for her husband to allow her to die by an assisted suicide. The courts would not allow her to do this. If her husband had carried out the assisted suicide, he would have been charged with manslaughter.
To some people who consider that their life may not be worth living, Euthanasia may be the only answer. In the case of terminal illness, the solution is already at hand, in the hospice style of care pioneered by doctors. But some very ill people with a lingering condition, staying in a hospice, could find a hospice so depressing that if given a choice they would rather die by euthanasia.
Christians may also respond by Caring for the patient or giving counselling to them or sending them to a hospice.
Allowing them to stay in a hospice may give the family a helping hand on care when looking after the terminally ill. Nurses would care for the terminally ill day and night. This may help by giving the comfort and love before the terminally ill die. Also the nurses and doctors would use their knowledge to help them control the pain of the terminally ill.
Some Christians say that in order to get to heaven we must suffer and die just like Jesus did for our faith and us.
To allow euthanasia would be like allowing Jesus to die. Those who ignore the vulnerable would be ignoring Jesus. Allowing euthanasia shows disrespect for life. But by looking after the terminally ill teaches other people the qualities of caring and understanding, whilst expanding the human soul’s knowledge of love and compassion.
The commandments say ‘Thou shall not kill’ so allowing someone to die would be wrong and disobeying the bible. Only God has the power to allow someone to die or not. We should not play god.
