🏷️ description: A new report reveals that more than 1,300 people have died from euthanasia in Spain since its legalization. This has raised concerns about the weakening of moral judgment and the dehumanization of medical care.
What does it mean that more than 1,300 people have requested and received euthanasia in Spain in just three years? Is this a step forward for rights or a step backward for humanity? For many, these figures reflect a profound ethical illiteracy both in society and in the medical field. As Christians committed to life, we are challenged to reflect.
🕊️ Euthanasia and the weakening of moral judgment
In the article published by Alfa y Omega presents worrying data: between July 2021 and June 2023, 1,301 people died by euthanasia in Spain. Most of the requests came from people with neurological diseases, cancer, or chronic conditions. But behind the figures lies something even more alarming: the trivialization of suffering and the loss of meaning in medical practice.
Bioethicist Pablo Requena clearly points out that behind this "normalization" of euthanasia there is a crisis of ethical sense: “Many doctors lack moral training and simply execute protocols without deep reflection.”
⛪ The value of every life before God
According to the Christian faith, every human life possesses an inviolable dignity, even in pain, dependence, or old age. Euthanasia is not a compassionate response, but a defeat of our capacity to accompany. Jesus did not shy away from human suffering: he embraced it, redeemed it, and taught us to bear the pain of others, not to eliminate it.
A society that offers death as a response to suffering reveals not only spiritual poverty, but also a profound disconnection from the Christian love that gives meaning to care, accompaniment, and hope.
🌍 What can we do as believers?
Bioethical literacy is not an academic luxury, but a pastoral and civic urgency. We need to educate our communities in moral discernment, promote a culture of palliative care, and speak out against legislation that reduces the value of life to individual productivity or autonomy.
Bioethics.life exists precisely for this purpose: to help us understand, reflect, and act. In the face of the temptation to abandon those who suffer, the Gospel compels us to accompany, comfort, and defend life.
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