Dr Lachlan Dunjey is passionate about building a Culture of Life and about protecting the children of today and tomorrow. A committed campaigner for the intrinsic value of all human life - the most significant ethical issue of the 21st century - he plays an important part in lobbying Federal and WA State Members of Parliament on the issue of embryo destruction in stem-cell research. 
Killing Must Never Be Seen as a Solution for Misery
December 2009 New Norcia
“Recent atrocious laws about abortion and embryonic stem cell research only passed by one or two votes. Will the same happen with euthanasia, assisted suicide and cloning? Why wouldn’t it? If we do not encourage people with strong Christian values about life, marriage and family to enter parliament, nothing will change.
The church cannot be involved in politics but it can encourage Catholics and other Christian people to enter parliament, bringing with them their own personal convictions formed by the church upbringing. Is anyone listening? I sincerely hope so.”
Archbishop Barry Hickey to Kelmscott parishioners Nov 8, 2009 reported in The Record Nov 25, 2009.
In JRRTolkien’s The Return of the King, Gandalf describes how the Stewards of Gondor are given responsibility for rule until the king has come. The steward of the time fails that responsibility miserably. In the face of oncoming danger he gives up and seeks to drag others down with him.
In the Beginning God created the heavens and the earth. And we read in those opening words of Genesis that God created man in His Image. Male and female created He them. And God said “be fruitful and increase, fill the earth and subdue it; rule over every living creature.” God establishes order and mankind is given the responsibility to see order is done.
In these few words we have the basis of all that we are, all we have, and all that we must do until the King returns. We are created in the Image of God. This brings with it a consciousness of God’s Law which is present in all people even though sometimes it is barely evident. All our creativity, all our ability to love, to rule with justice mixed with mercy is dependent on us having been created in His Image. We are given freedom, but in this freedom we are to be responsible stewards and that means there are limits to this freedom.
When we try to escape these limits and break God’s law not only do we lose our freedom and become slaves to sin but we seek more and more to achieve our own agenda of what we regard as freedom and to be our own gods.
On moral and ethical issues we have to be so clear as to where God’s boundaries lie and we must be very aware of the tendency to blur those boundaries with rationalities like with sex “oh, it won’t hurt anyone” or with abortion “have compassion – she’s only 14” or with euthanasia “you’d help your dog to die”.
Now there are lots of well-meaning people who are in favour of helping a person to die when they are in severe unremitting pain and death is imminent anyway and that is how the situation is presented in community surveys when 80% of people agree to euthanasia. But that’s not the full story anyway and we know that the real agenda of the people who are foremost in the push for autonomy in death is much more than that.
