The cruelty of "compassion"

Illinois’ legalization of physician-assisted suicide is the next step in a deeper cultural shift toward viewing human life as expendable. In a culture that walks this path, so-called “societal compassion” quickly shows itself to be "societal abandonment." When suffering is met with a prescription for death instead of support, presence, and dignity, the result is a culture that prefers eliminating the sufferer to alleviating the suffering. Let's expose the moral drift, the false promise of “aid in dying,” and the Christian conviction that every human life - especially the vulnerable - is inherently sacred.