# Is Pro-Life Inconsistent with Euthanasia?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [September 19, 2020, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-pro-life-inconsistent-with-euthanasia/920979 "2020-09-19T05:20:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Saintly\_Loser](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saintly_loser/32/4045_2.png) [@Saintly\_Loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saintly_Loser)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-pro-life-inconsistent-with-euthanasia/920979/61 "2020-09-23T20:19:54Z")

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> [@Hari\_Seldon](#):
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> I don’t usually disagree with you, but I here I have to draw the line. You mean the church of the Crusades; the church of the Inquisition; the church whose official representative said, “Kill them all and let God sort it out”?

Yes. That Church.

From the current Catechism:

> Recourse to the death penalty on the part of legitimate authority, following a fair trial, was long considered an appropriate response to the gravity of certain crimes and an acceptable, albeit extreme, means of safeguarding the common good.
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> Today, however, there is an increasing awareness that the dignity of the person is not lost even after the commission of very serious crimes. In addition, a new understanding has emerged of the significance of penal sanctions imposed by the state. Lastly, more effective systems of detention have been developed, which ensure the due protection of citizens but, at the same time, do not definitively deprive the guilty of the possibility of redemption.
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> Consequently, the Church teaches, in the light of the Gospel, that “the death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person”, and she works with determination for its abolition worldwide.

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**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-pro-life-inconsistent-with-euthanasia/920979/62 "2020-09-23T21:31:52Z")

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Or you could use the conditional phrasing I did when summarizing your position in post #59.

> “if a person is Pro-Life on the basis of […]”

~Max

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**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-pro-life-inconsistent-with-euthanasia/920979/63 "2020-09-23T21:35:28Z")

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Eh, more words to type without adding clarity.

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**Author:** ![Jim\_B](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jim_b/32/4338_2.png) [@Jim\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_B)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-pro-life-inconsistent-with-euthanasia/920979/64 "2020-10-05T00:03:39Z")

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Something that might be relevant: [here](https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2020/10/04/pope-francis-closes-door-death-penalty-fratelli-tutti).

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