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Richard Doerflinger
By Richard Doerflinger • Catholic News Service • Posted June 4, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has killed hundreds of thousands of Americans and isolated us from each other as authorities struggle to prevent infections. As vaccinations increase, we see fewer new cases, and a welcome relaxation of some precautions especially for those who are vaccinated. That raises its own issues.
Some predict a two-class society: the privileged who are vaccinated and can resume normal activities, and second-class citizens who must still wear masks and distance themselves from others. That is especially troubling to Catholics who refuse vaccines because of their connection with fetal tissue from abortion.
Most people have heard of the slippery slope. After making what seems a limited exception to a moral principle, we may find over time that it logically becomes far broader than we had in mind.
In his 1995 encyclical Evangelium Vitae ( The Gospel of Life ), St. John Paul II recounted how this can create a culture of death undermining the very idea that human life deserves respect.
On the issue of physician-assisted suicide, something even more troubling may be at work: The goal that proponents always supported is becoming clearer only gradually to the rest of us.
In 2008, voters in my home state of Washington approved a law allowing doctors to prescribe a lethal drug overdose for patients expected to have less than six months to live.
.Henry J. Hyde, former Republican Congressman from Illinois who died in 2007, speaks with members of the press in this 1999 file photo. (CNS photo/Win McNamee, Reuters) .A woman with children listens to pro-life leaders speak in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington Oct. 1, 2019. The Hyde Amendment would prevent federal funding for abortion as a permanent part of the law. (CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn) .Dan Lipinski, former Illinois representative, speaks during the annual March for Life rally in Washington Jan. 18, 2019. (CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn) .An abortion protester is seen near a Planned Parenthood clinic in Boston June, 28, 2014. The Hyde Amendment would prevent federal funding for abortion as a permanent part of the law. (CNS photo/Dominick Reuter, Reuters)
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