There are alternatives to abortion, including adoption. Adoption allows the child an opportunity to live. If a woman finds herself with an unplanned pregnancy, she can go to a pro-life centre. There she can find help and support. She can make a decision for herself and her baby that doesn't revolve around death. Abortion does not need to be and should not be legal. It is possible to love both the mother and baby without purposely harming any of them.
Euthanasia is the direct killing of an individual for various reasons such as illness, disability, or personal choice. In Catholicism, human life is viewed as a gift from God. Taking away human life is turning your back on God and not being grateful for the life he has given you or others. Only God has the power to give and take away life. When human beings take life decisions in their own hands, we are in great risk of committing very serious crimes. When the power to take life is taken into human hands, we can use it for evil purposes or misuse it. For example in the bible in psalm 139 13:16 it says “all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them come to be”. This is saying god has mapped out your life and has already decided when you will die. An example of people taking life into their own hands in the media is Dr Harold Shipman, the world’s most prolific serial killer. He killed over 150 defenceless pensioners because he thought he could take the role of god and decide weather people lived or died.
A person class a person with a disability not fit to live and choose to kill him or her. Someone might be having a hard day or month, and give up and die. In addition, the elderly might not want to be a burden on their family and kill themselves. Euthanasia is becoming very dangerous because of the media-publishing stories about people committing euthanasia. For example the 74 year old, Reginald Crew who suffered from motor neurons disease. Reginald travelled to Holland were he receive a fatal dosage of morphine in a local clinic. Reginald personally believed god would not want him to suffer and that is the reason he decided to commit euthanasia. When stories of people committing euthanasia are in the news Christians feel it is putting increasing pressure on people to consider euthanasia.
Some Christians say euthanasia is sometimes right. For example if a doctor is faced with the problem of an incurable patient who wants to die have often felt it was morally better to withdraw treatment from a patient and let the patient die than to kill the patient, perhaps with a lethal injection. Some Christians think that active euthanasia is in fact the morally better course of action. In the bible it says, “Love your neighbour”, someone you care about is in a great deal of pain this could mean you should help him or her to die.
