S F I D A Sindacato Famiglie Italiane Diverse Abilit=E0
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To Tom Butler,
Clergymen of Southwark Cathedral
London (GB)
Don't kill Abel!
NOBODY can claim the right to decide if a life deserves to be lived or
killed.
I could never imagined that in the third millennium the discussion
about killing or not handicapped individuals came again.
My son Giovanni didn't speak, walk, react until the age of 3; he
couldn't stay not even sit down. Nowadays he is 14 and attends the
first class of Secondary School. He goes to school with his wheelchair,
he studies with a personal computer, and lives joyously.
Giulio is 7 and is not yet able to communicate with the world
surrounding him, but when we go out on a ride car, he smiles and is
happy.
Father, do you think life of handicapped people does not deserve to be
lived?
Plato proposed to accept only the kids of the best, and kill the
others.
Aristotle proposed a law forbidding the bringing up of impaired
children.
Cicero proposed to kill immediately the crippled people.
Nietzsche asserted weak and infirm people had to die.
Father, you said: "In some cases it can be right suspending the
clinic treatment, being aware that this choice can lead probably, or
even surely, to death."
"What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he loses one of them,
dos not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that
which is lost, until he finds it? And when he has found it, he lays it
on his shoulders, rejoicing. And when he comes back home, he calls
together his friends and neighbours, saying unto them, rejoice with me;
for I have found my sheep which was lost." (Luke 15, 4-7).
When a kid is sick, his parents, just like the good shepherd, leave
all, go to the hospital, hoping in the recovery.
Sometimes the kid recovers, they come back home, celebrating with
relatives and friends.
Sometimes the kid dies, they come back home, mourning with relatives
and friends.
Sometimes the kid becomes crippled, they come back home, where
relatives and friends don't know what to say.
The former have been lucky, the second have been unlucky, and the
others?
The others, in spite of everything, still have their own kid, their
precious pearl; he is not like they wished he was, but he is with them,
and this is a joy.
CAN A PARENT ALLOW THE KILLING OF HIS SON BECAUSE HIS INFIRMITY?
Unfortunately, some parents throw over their kids because sick or
crippled, others rape them, but they are "monsters".
An arithmetic exercise in Nazi German was: "Un unsound mind costs 4
marks a day, a cripple 5.5 marks a day, a criminal 3.5 marks. A public
official earns 4 marks a day, an employee 3.5 marks a day, a factory
worker...: ****tray these numbers in a chart. They considered crippled
people as an economic problem.
Father, you proposed: "Justice notion implies that the cost of
medical treatments for Sanitation and Public Instruction must be
determined considering the op****tunity for National Health Service to
use the resources for saving other lives".
Even you, maybe, do you think infirm people are an economic problem for
community?
Who will be the SUPERMAN that will decide sacrifice and death of a
little cripple premature baby, to save other lives?
Each human individual, nobody excepting (including crippled premature
babies), receives life from God and each life "is to let God's work
be shown plainly in it".
Life is sacred from the beginning and NOBODY can claim the right to
decide if it deserves to be lived or killed.
Rome, 15 December 2006
The National Secretary
Ing. Andrea Ricciardi
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