WASHINGTON — Renowned evangelical author and disabilities advocate Joni Eareckson Tada is warning that the United States could one day become like Canada or more liberal European nations that promote physician-assisted suicide unless Christians push back against the trend.
Eareckson Tada, a 68-year-old quadriplegic and best-selling author, spoke with The Christian Post last week before giving a keynote address at the annual Evangelicals for Life conference in the nation’s capital in which she addressed the topic of “dignity in disability.”
Tada, the founder of the Joni and Friends International Disability Center who was paralyzed in a diving accident when she was 17, stressed that the way a strong majority of the American public and many evangelicals are quickly embracing physician-assisted suicide as a “morally acceptable” option when patients face terminal illnesses, she could easily see the U.S. going the way of more socially progressive nations within the next 10-plus years.
“Thirty-eight percent of evangelicals feel that it’s morally permissible for physicians to help when requested for aid in dying,” Tada said, referring to a 2016 LifeWay Research poll. “That shows me that No. 1, we don’t have a biblical worldview on suffering and we don’t know how to deal with it. We want to drug it, escape it, euthanize it, do anything but live with it. No. 2, we fear it.”
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