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Yesterday on the eNCA news channel in South Africa there were reports
that the Congress of the People Party (COPE) would be sponsoring a
Bill in Parliament about "living wills".

While I don't have any strong objections to that in principle (though
I haven't seen the terms of the Bill), the spokesman for Cope and
DignitySA,who are sponsoring the Bill, went on to say that they would
later be advocating physician-assisted suicide, and said that religion
and morality should have no role in public life in a secular state.
That I do have strong objections to.

I've written about this in a blog post, which you can see here:

https://khanya.wordpress.com/2018/08/07/i-cant-cope-any-more/

I have also posted links to the blog post on Twitter (@hayesstw) and
Facebook. Whether you agree with what I said in the article or not, I
think it is important that we discuss the issues raised by this, which
is I see as two-fold:

1. Even though most political parties support the pro-death culture in
one way or another (war, abortion, capital punishment,
physician-assisted suicide, etc.), can one vote for a party that
wants to extend this still further?

2. Can one accept the idea that religion and morality have no role to
play in public life in a secular society?


--
Steve Hayes
http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm
http://khanya.wordpress.com

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