No question about it: we, as a society, do not like the weak and the vulnerable. Instead of investing resources in them, it is much more convenient to destroy them ourselves (the promise of abortion, which involves the medical killing of the baby in utero) or encourage the vulnerable to destroy themselves (as MAID attempts to do in Canada with medical killing of eligible adults over the age of eighteen). Tragically, some of the weak and the vulnerable—pregnant women in crisis situations, the drug addicted, the ill, the poor—are the most likely to buy into both of these lies. But is this true? Do we as a society realize that we tell some people outright:
Your life is not worth living.
You do not deserve to live.
Your child does not deserve to live.
What kind of monsters does this make us?
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