Tuesday, December 16, 2008

It profits a man nothing...


...to sell his soul for the whole world, but for Luxembourg?

Grand Duke Henri, Luxembourg's monarch, has agreed to be stripped of his power to veto laws after refusing to give his consent to a law permitting euthanasia. This is a courageous stand by a man of principle and an inspiration to the pro-life movement at a terrible moment for Europe, when yet another country is turning its back on its vulnerable citizens.

This is not the first time a monarch has made such a stand. In 1990, the King of Belgium refused to sign abortion into law and abdicated temporarily. There was a facebook petition asking the Queen of England not to sign the HFE bill into law, to no avail.