Spirit & Life
Weekly column from HLI President Fr. Shenan J. Boquet
“Human dignity is not measured by its efficiency or usefulness. Life always has value, despite illness, frailty, and limitations. The answer to suffering is not to offer death, but to guarantee forms of social support, continuous health care, and home health care, so that the patient does not feel alone and families can be supported…
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A Quiet Genocide: New Eugenics and Down Syndrome
Many people think that the eugenics movement perished with the death of Adolf Hitler and the end of his Third Reich. They couldn’t be more wrong. In his campaign for racial purity, Hitler rounded up and executed millions of Jews, as well as people with physical or mental disabilities, gypsies, and other unwanted individuals deemed…
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