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Catholic Church representatives have welcomed a ruling by Europe's top human rights court that countries have no obligation to allow physician-assisted suicide.Disability campaigners from 'Distant Voices and Not Dead' hold a demonstration outside Westminster Hall in central London, on April 29, protesting against proposals to legalize assisted suicide in the UK.
In an OSV News interview, Father Ganci said the Holy See, although represented at two dozen Europe-based international organizations, was not part of the European court system, and would not speculate on details of this latest court judgment. The European Court of Human Rights ruled on a case brought by Daniel Karsai, a lawyer who suffers from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a neurodegenerative disease usually fatal within three to five years.
This subject continues to raise"extremely sensitive moral and ethical questions, and one on which opinions in democratic countries often profoundly differ," the judgment continued. However, it added that the court's decision to keep the issue under review as public attitudes evolved also risked compromising"intangible principles" underlying human rights since World War II.
However, he warned there also were"ominous signs" that a public"impression of consensus" was forming around new human rights. Paragraph 2325 of the 1992 Catechism of the Catholic Church says suicide is forbidden by the Fifth Commendment and"seriously contrary to justice, hope and charity," while paragraph 2324 brands euthanasia as murder"whatever its forms or motives."
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