I was glad to hear about Joe Carter’s job opportunity at The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity. I am very pleased to learn that there are organizations that value life and dignity as much as I do. Since my wife suffers from multiple chronic illness’s, I am very sensative to how people are treated who are not in good health. I founded two organizations, IDA and WIGM to help bring comfort to both those who suffer and their loved ones. When Hugh Hewitt talked about the Groningen Protocol I was miffed to say the least. I sent the following to Hugh in an email.
Over 125 million Americans live with some sort of chronic illness. Not all are disabled, but their normal life activities suffer.
My wife, Sherri, suffers from chronic progressive MS and late stage Lyme disease, I wonder if she would even be allowed to live in the Netherlands. People always tell her that despite all of her excruciating pain and fatigue, well, she at least “Looks Good.” What if she stops “looking Good?” Should we get rid of her since she is no longer pleasing to our eyes.
We have thousands of visitors to our two organization’s websites and many of them would fall victim to the Netherlands independent committee because they are no longer “Productive.”
A missionary friend of ours has an autistic son who was in diapers until he was 14, I am sure the committee would have “murdered” him as well. Now he is 19 and working as a stock boy at the mall.
We need to fight for those who suffer greatly and not destroy them. Without suffering, we will never grow. As a believer, in order to be like Christ, we must suffer as well as He did until death. His strength is also made perfect in weakness.
Everyone is important and only God should decide when we are to leave this earth to His glory!
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