Nigel Cameron Quotes on Life (3 Quotes)

It's a symptom of the commodification of the person. What is it the New Testament says -- 'You are not your own you were bought with a price.' Well, in this generation we believe we are our own, and so we can commodify ourselves, we can use ourselves as possessions of ourselves 'I own myself, it's my body.' And what is more -- 'I own my children, certainly in terms of design and the procreative process. Therefore, I can kill I can give life. I meet out weal and woe. I'm God.' Taking life and making life become two subsets of the same thing.

It is crucial to recognize that abortion is a symptom, not a disease. It is a very nasty symptom, it is a horrific thing -- but it isn't the disease. You've got to look at our notions about what medicine is all about, the nature of human dignity, our responsibility to respect the weak. Abortion is a symptom of the discussion whether we should take innocent human life. Historically, we've always said no. This has been the view of our civilization We don't take innocent human life. There've been some ambiguities there about early pregnancy and so on -- was it already life or not But that isn't the point. When life is there, you don't deliberately take it.

Euthanasia, of course, is the next round of that discussion, ... It's a lot more difficult because with euthanasia, the life wants to be taken. So you can't say, 'Poor fetus, nobody asked the fetus.' It's, 'Poor old guy, somebody asked him and he said, pl