an article by Edward Buffon, La Repubblica
ROME - "Believers can not be recalled with the diktat. I think it's a mistake to enter the Church in this way, arrived on foot, on such a sensitive matter, on which millions of Catholics around the world every day make decisions very similar to those of the family Englaro, and do so with pain and difficulty. This Church knows, and there are many Catholic doctors who must make difficult decisions every day, and I'm torn. interventions should be sensitive . We are in danger of losing the secular character of our state with this kind of controversy. "
It 's the strong response of Mercedes Bresso, President of Piedmont, to the criticisms leveled against her, in an interview with La Repubblica, Archbishop of Turin, Cardinal Severino Poletto. Mercedes Bresso - Governor of the Democratic Party - has intervened directly in the Republic TV this morning.
"A Poletto, reminiscent of the Catholic doctors to conscientious objection, I ask: what is the difference between today's Italy and the clerical state, like that of the Ayatollah, which is enjoined to all believers to take a certain behavior? One thing is a recommendation, the expression of a position that I consider absolutely legitimate Another thing is the injunction to persons who are required to comply with the laws of your country that until proven otherwise is still a secular state ".
Why
Bresso has come forward on a story so hard? "I think there is a duty of public facilities to implement the decision of the Supreme Court, which also was taken twice because there was a cancellation for formal reasons. Since this is a very sensitive issue on an ethical level, it is clear that While there is in our legal conscientious objection of doctors for the 194 if not explicitly stated, it is clear that no one who does not wish to be obliged to intervene in this case. I remember, however, that Catholic doctors and non-Catholics, believers and nonbelievers every day with their families take such decisions and I see that other principle take only what comes dall'habeas corpus, the founding of Western law, namely the decision of a person and who that person represents when it is no longer able to decide. "
" In the past we had offered as the Piedmont Region our willingness to Englaro family. And I repeat: the Ministry's circular Sacconi does not pass the law, and interpretation of the law is not the job of the executive. E 'disturbing it to bend the law to a political decision. If there are problems in applying the protocol, will be discussed in full compliance, with the family. I'm worried: I see only threatened the secular principle of respect for people is to self-determination. For this you need a law on living wills. The medicine will in a few years to keep anyone alive, and then what will we do? Eluana is a person in a permanent vegetative state, not a disability. "
" I have not imposed anything to anyone - insists FirstCall / - If there are contacts, will be directly between the Englaro family and our health. Those who have something imposed is the president of the Lombardy region, Formigoni, which prohibited any work on Eluana in its region. "What structures would be ready?" If I knew, I would not say, for reasons of confidentiality. The family chose a difficult route, legality, exposing criticism and waste. Now he has the right to privacy ".
In transmission, against the choice of Bresso, also spoke Eugenia Roccella, Welfare Undersecretary of the PDL by delegation to bioethical issues." I fear that there will be strong difficulties to apply that ruling. There are problems between public health and the way in which it was made that decree. There is a level of service - explained Roccella - in which to place a protocol like that. It 'hard to place a protocol to bring a sick person, who may live many years and being treated, end stage and let it die. Why is this you ask. It asks that a patient rather than cure and it leads to death. Any public health facility that will try to do this will find that there are problems. "" We are faced with a disability - said Eugenia Roccella - and not a person in a permanent vegetative state. "
(January 22, 2009)
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