“This resolution is a major victory for the protection of life and dignity,” said Gregor Puppinck, director of the European Center for Law and Justice (ECLJ), a Strasbourg, France-based organization affiliated with the American Center for Law and Justice. “This is the first time, in the past decades, that euthanasia is so clearly rejected by a European political institution.”
Puppinck was responding to a vote by the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE), meeting in Strasbourg, approving a measure that included the line, “Euthanasia, in the sense of the intentional killing by act or omission of a dependent human being for his or her alleged benefit, must always be prohibited.”...
“But because of the growing concerns around euthanasia, the Assembly estimated that it is necessary to recall explicitly the basic principle that ‘intentional killing must always be prohibited,’ ” Puppinck said.
‘If in doubt, decision must be pro-life’...
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