Euthanasia in Belgium : 97 % of Flemish Catholic hospitals authorise euthanasia for their patients
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A recent study published in Health Policy of October 2005, and realised by the Catholic University of Leuven revealed that about 97 % of the responding Catholic Hospitals in Flanders (the northernmost part of Belgium) do authorise their physicians to practise active euthanasia, while 60 % of the Catholic nursing homes also permitted euthanasia.
Active euthanasia (the administration of a lethal substance with the intention to kill) is legalized by a Belgian act of 2002 under conditions. Nevertheless, under canon law and the Declaration on euthanasia of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (1980) “ nothing, nor nobody cannot, in any manner, justify the murder of an innocent human being whether it be (...) an adult, an old person, or a person who is dying ”, while Evangelium Vitae precises that “ euthanasia is a serious violation of the law of God, since it is a deliberate and morally unacceptable murder of a human person. This doctrine is based on natural law and on the written word of God, it is transmitted by the Tradition of the Church, and is thought by the ordinary and universal Magisterium ”. Under canon law, canon 808 stipulates that “ No university, even if it is really catholic, can bear the title or the name of catholic university without the consent of the competent ecclesiastical authority ”. Hence, no university hospital may continue to authorise euthanasia and keep its Catholic denomination – except in Belgium, of course.
If you want to read more about the study and download it in exclusivity from the web site of The Dawn of Europe, then click here.
A recent study published in Health Policy of October 2005, and realised by the Catholic University of Leuven revealed that about 97 % of the responding Catholic Hospitals in Flanders (the northernmost part of Belgium) do authorise their physicians to practise active euthanasia, while 60 % of the Catholic nursing homes also permitted euthanasia.
Active euthanasia (the administration of a lethal substance with the intention to kill) is legalized by a Belgian act of 2002 under conditions. Nevertheless, under canon law and the Declaration on euthanasia of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (1980) “ nothing, nor nobody cannot, in any manner, justify the murder of an innocent human being whether it be (...) an adult, an old person, or a person who is dying ”, while Evangelium Vitae precises that “ euthanasia is a serious violation of the law of God, since it is a deliberate and morally unacceptable murder of a human person. This doctrine is based on natural law and on the written word of God, it is transmitted by the Tradition of the Church, and is thought by the ordinary and universal Magisterium ”. Under canon law, canon 808 stipulates that “ No university, even if it is really catholic, can bear the title or the name of catholic university without the consent of the competent ecclesiastical authority ”. Hence, no university hospital may continue to authorise euthanasia and keep its Catholic denomination – except in Belgium, of course.
If you want to read more about the study and download it in exclusivity from the web site of The Dawn of Europe, then click here.
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