The Evils of Euthanasia

Oregon's Assisted Suicide Law is going up before the United States Supreme Court. It has ended up there because there is a question of legality in using prescription medicine as the means to terminate a life. This is apparently a violation of the federal law dealing with controlled substances. This alone SHOULD be enough to get this horrible law off of the books.

But the more important question deals with the issues of life and death. IF this law stays, then what will be the eventual repercussions? Many believe that the United States, which has the best medical research and provider care in the world, would deteriorate just as the Netherlands have done so.

" 'Doctors in the Netherlands have described situations where doctors have been basically using euthanasia as a quick fix because they don't know otherwise how to take care of patients,' Dr. Kenneth Stevens, vice president of Physicians for Compassionate Care asserts. 'So it actually has a harmful effect on the development of new techniques to try to help patients.'

Already, he notes, a study on terminally ill patients in Oregon has shown that their level of care by doctors has deteriorated since physician-assisted suicide became legal in that state.' " M.D. Hopes Oregon Loses Court Battle

Sounds like an "easy" out to me.....

Meanwhile the Netherlands have started to include the handicapped, and the elderly in their "legal" euthanasia. What's to stop them?

"Because once a price is placed on human life, the price goes down. " - Burke Balch

Ask the modern day Hitlers of the world if this is true.....you know, the Saddam Husseins, the Pol Pots, the Kim Jong-il, the Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the Sunni leaders, and of course the good ol' Manuel Noriega's (whose name I had forgotten~~not in the news killing your competition, er enemies, you get forgotten! Now THAT is depressing. Ummm, that would make him a likely candidate! Find out why.....in the next paragraph.)

"In the Netherlands, although they started with purely voluntary euthanasia for people who were dying," states Burke Balch, director of the Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics of the National Right to Life Committee. "They moved very rapidly to individuals who were not dying but were disabled. Then they chose those who were neither dying nor disabled but who were simply old. Then they moved on to depressed patients. Then they moved into cases where the patient hadn't given consent at all."
Holland's Inevitable Progress

Sounds like murder to me.

Wow, Hitler couldn't have done better! The Netherlands must be very proud of their contribution to the world. Death to those imperfect individuals.

Except there is one small wee problem here.

We ALL are imperfect. It is just more obvious in some than in others. EVERYONE has a handicap. Some people cannot spell. Some cannot add. Some cannot walk. Some cannot see. Some cannot speak. The list can go on and on.

So, if the Netherlands and Oregonians are going to continue to kill and graduate to killing those imperfect individuals; well, they might as well start with themselves~~save the rest of us the trouble.

Finally, Dr. Alan Carlson of the Howard Center for Family, Religion, and Society points out something I have previously blogged: ..." as the American population ages and as health care becomes more expensive, so-called 'mercy killings' will become all too convenient." Agape Press

That means YOU Boomers!! This generation alone; of which I am the tale end of; will DRAIN the Social Security system as well as Medicare.

We better HOPE our government DOES find the Oregonian laws unlawful~~or we could be in serious trouble.

Just a thought.....

Top of Page