Marquette Univ. named in condemning report on Catholic support for assisted suicide

Daniel Maguire with Catholic Rainbow Parents co-founders
Tom and Darlene White.  Source

Marquette University theologian Daniel Maguire shares a similar interest in both abortion advocacy and assisted suicide. The U.S. bishops publicly denounced Maguire in 2007 for promoting “false teaching” on abortion, contraception, and same-sex marriage, but the scolding did not address his views on end-of-life issues.

In 1974, Maguire wrote the book Death by Choice, as well as an article for the Atlantic Monthly in which he argued:

The present categories of the law do not encompass the realities involved in death by choice, that is… one’s own death or the death of another is opted for in preference to continued living. …The motives for these deaths are compassion and an unselfish desire to bring on death when continued living is unbearable for the patient due to physical and/or mental suffering. Mercy killings thus described do not fit into any of the categories of unjustifiable homicide available in American law.

In 2009, Maguire testified before the Wisconsin Medical Society in support of a resolution approving physician-assisted suicide and calling on the state legislature to legalize the practice in a manner similar to Oregon. He did so in his capacity as a Marquette professor and president of the Religious Consultation on Population, Reproductive Health and Ethics, a nonprofit organization that publicly disputes Catholic moral teaching.

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I've been told we can't make fun of the old guard and their age or what Maguire looks like or that I would probably wear garlic if I met him lest he try to suck my blood ....

If a Ford salesman tells everyone that comes to him to buy a car to buy a Honda.... is that person really a Ford salesman?   And would it be a good idea for that Ford dealership to fire him?