After 1945 we were to be provided by the Welfare State with care \u2018from the cradle to the grave\u2019. Instead, it rather looks as though, with legalised abortion on demand and creeping euthanasia, we are being provided with death from the cradle to the grave.<\/p>\n

In the NHS today, where one of our daughters works as a nurse, patients who refuse to die are called \u2018coffin dodgers\u2019. Everything must be accounted for, everything has a price \u2013 the accountant\u2019s mentality introduced into everything by Mrs Thatcher and ardently pursued by Mr Blair. Today, life and death decisions are overseen by NICE, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, the ironically-named organisation which decides whether we can afford care for the sick or not. It was prophesied by C. S. Lewis, also in 1945, in his novel \u2018That Hideous Strength\u2019, which is about a devilish and anti-human organisation called N.I.C.E. \u2013 the \u2018National Institute of Co-ordinated Experiments\u2019. That organisation should definitely have been called NASTY.<\/p>\n

Financial pressures decide our \u2018best interests\u2019 – life or death. DCS – Deep Continuous Sedation \u2013 with deprivation of food and fluids – is the fate of more and more terminally ill. DCS is in fact simply a disguised, politically correct term for euthanasia. Yet, the Gospel of Christ proclaims not \u2018Euthanasia\u2019 (\u2018Good Mortality\u2019), but Athanasia \u2013 Immortality.<\/p>\n

It is the same with abortion, the politically correct term for infanticide or child-murder. It is no good referring to a child as \u2018an embryo\u2019 or \u2018a foetus\u2019, it is still a child and its abortion is still murder. We are told that we must be \u2018pro-choice\u2019 (another disguised name), but what is this choice: to murder or not to murder? This is no more a choice than that made by the Nazis in their death camps. In reality, there is only one choice. It is not \u2018pro-life\u2019 or \u2018pro-choice\u2019, it is pro-life or anti-life.<\/p>\n

The Western culture of death is the culture of suicide. Does the Western – and Westernised \u2013 world want to live or want to die? I know where I stand.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: John Smeaton Today I had the pleasure of renewing my acquaintance with Archpriest Andrew Phillips, who leads one of Britain’s 40 Russian Orthodox parishes in Colchester. Archpriest Andrew has kindly sent me some of his recent personal reflections on pro-life issues: After 1945 we were to be provided by the Welfare State with care […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1784],"tags":[1465,1671,1669,1670,243,1],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10072"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10072"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10075,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10072\/revisions\/10075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}