D.C. gives initial OK to assisted suicide

Posted on November 3, 2016 
Filed under Culture wars

Mark Dever“Physician-assisted suicide in America’s capital city has gained first approval, and Southern Baptist leaders locally and nationally are warning about the consequences.

The Council of the District of Columbia voted 11-2 Tuesday … for legislation that would empower doctors to prescribe lethal drugs to people who have been diagnosed with terminal illnesses and supposedly have less than six months to live.  … 

Mark Dever, a Southern Baptist pastor in D.C., warned the council’s effort to end suffering will only produce more suffering. …

‘The council may have acted with the best of intentions, but this will spawn a thousand private nightmares that we will never hear of, and will rob us of stewardships of the weak and vulnerable that God has given to us.

It is not good when societies learn to dispose of anyone.’…”

– Report from Baptist Press. (Photo: Mark Dever, courtesy christianity.com.)