Wed Feb 8, 2023 – 8:07 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) – The United Church of Canada is being called out by a pro-life group for promoting the “legalized killing” of its members because it approved multiple euthanasia “prayers” to be used for those who have “chosen medically assisted dying.”
As listed on its website under the “Death and Dying” page, the United Church lists multiple prayers for those who will be dying from state-sanctioned assisted suicide.
Some of the prayers include one for “the person who has chosen medically assisted dying,” and another for “the loved ones of someone who has chosen to end their life.”
There is also a prayer for “medical professionals going to hear the request of a patient to end their life.”
Alex Schadenberg, executive director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, took issue with the prayers, saying the United Church is in fact “praying” for murder.
“People should always have compassion for people who are living with physical or mental illness,” Schadenberg wrote in a recent blog.
“But the United Church is praying for and approving the act of killing.”
Schadenberg told LifeSiteNews via email that when people give into a “false
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