To Live Each Day with Dignity: A Statement on Physician-Assisted Suicide

"People who request death are vulnerable. They need care and protection. To offer them lethal drugs is a victory not for freedom but for the worst form of neglect. Such abandonment is especially irresponsible when society is increasingly aware of elder abuse and other forms of mistreatment and exploitation of vulnerable persons."
  - From "To Live Each Day with Dignity," USCCB Statement 

WASHINGTON— The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) approved a policy statement on physician-assisted suicide at its Spring General Assembly in Seattle on June 16. The statement, To Live Each Day with Dignity, passed with a vote of 191-1. It marks the first time the full body of bishops has issued a statement devoted to this issue...

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Purpose

The Catholics Respect Life Office serves the parishes and families within the Diocese of Fort Worth through Education, Pastoral Care, Prayer and Worship and works in union with parishes and families to change Public Policy and Legislation in an effort to restore the dignity due to every human life from conception to natural death. Through these acts we hope to stand as a united community and answer the appeal made by John Paul II in The Gospel of Life, "...in the name of God: respect, protect, love and serve life, every human life." (The Gospel of Life, no 5).

Contacts

Chanacee Ruth-Killgore
Director of Catholics Respect Life
(817) 560-2452, Ext. 257
cruth-killgore@fwdioc.org

Debra Heron
Gabriel Project Coordinator
Catholics Respect Life Office
(817) 965-4885
dheron@fwdioc.org

Betsy Kopor
Rachel Ministries Coordinator
(817) 585-1118
bkopor@fwdioc.org

Sue Laux
Youth for Life Coordinator
(817) 939-8595
slaux@fwdioc.org

Satellite Office

Catholic Respect Life Satellite Office
1404 Hemphill St.
Fort Worth, TX 76104
(817) 585-1118

Hours vary, please call for appointment
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