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Are the profoundly disabled and frail elderly
living too long?
" ... bioethicist Daniel Callahan - who saw
the feeding tube as a serious hurdle - boldly stated that changing its
classification from 'basic care' to 'medical treatment' would be 'the only
effective way to make certain that a large number of biologically tenacious
patients actually die."
BY BOBBY SCHINDLER / LIFENEWS.COM
Originally appeared as Yes, We have a Culture
of Death
According to research reviewed by board certified
medical geneticist and Co-Director of the Down Syndrome Program at Massachusetts
General Hospital, Dr. Skotko, it is estimated that 92 percent of all women who
receive a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome abort their baby.
World famous atheist
proselytizer and Oxford professor, Richard Dawkins, made headlines when he
called it "immoral" not to abort Down babies "and try
again."
Belgium has legalized
euthanasia (with no age limits) for children who have been diagnosed as
terminal and with death expected to occur "within a brief
period." If this criteria is met, then the parents - and child! -
may ask in writing for a lethal injection.
The head of Canada's largest
doctors' group has called child euthanasia an "appropriate" choice
under certain circumstances.
Northern Ireland Minister of
Justice, David Ford, is considering a change in the law so that it is legal to
kill pre-born babies suspected of being disabled.
Professor of Bioethics
at Princeton University, Peter Singer, believes we should be permitted to
lethally inject Alzheimer's "non-persons," even if they never asked
to be killed.
Currently, there is a
strong push advocating the removal of spoon feeding from Alzheimer's patients
if they so requested in an advance directive.
In 2012, a prominent
doctor in the UK made the chilling claim that the (NHS) - the publicly funded
healthcare systems in the UK (and what most likely Obamacare will look like for
us here in the US) - "kills off 130,000 elderly patients every year."
In a March 2008, New York
Times article titled, "Terminal Options for the Irreversibly
Ill", Judith Schwartz, a registered nurse and clinical coordinator for
Compassion and Choices of New York (formerly known as the Hemlock Society)
openly stated that over one million people die each year in American hospitals
as a "a consequence of someone's decision to withhold or withdraw
life-sustaining treatment."
In the same article, Dr.
Sidney Wanzer and Dr. Joseph Glenmullen of Harvard University Health Services
noted that in situations where a person is going to stop receiving food and
water, "refusal of hydration is faster and less distressing than
starvation in hastening death."
Sadly, these are just a
few more recent examples of the life-threatening prejudices plaguing the
disability community and countless others who are medically vulnerable.
Indeed, this terrible toll does not arise in a cultural vacuum, but reflects
attitudes that assume dead is better than disabled. And, there is no
doubt, that included in the number of patients dying in this sobering New
York Times article, regardless of its title are those with cognitive
disabilities who, every single day, are being starved and hydrated to death -
persons who are not dying, but who are simply living with their disability, and
only need basic care (food and water, via a feeding tube) to live.
It was not long ago that
feeding tubes were considered basic and ordinary care and therefore it was
illegal, an act of euthanasia, to stop feeding and hydrating a person in need
of a feeding tube. Today, however, feeding tubes have been redefined as
"artificial nutrition and hydration" - and therefore a form of
"medical treatment." Consequently, the removal of food and
water from the cognitively disabled patients, and countless other medically vulnerable
people, is now legal and routine in fifty states.
In his book, Culture
of Death: The Assault on Medical Ethics in America, author and bioethicist
Wesley J. Smith writes that, "defining 'artificial nutrition' as treatment
instead of human care was a crucial step in the development of the culture of
death." According to Smith, as far back as the early 80s,
bioethicists began to debate out loud whether or not "the profoundly
disabled and frail were living too long." In particular, bioethicist
Daniel Callahan - who saw the feeding tube as a serious hurdle - boldly stated
that changing its classification from "basic care" to "medical
treatment" would be "the only effective way to make certain that a
large number of biologically tenacious patients actually die."
Eventually, more bioethicists
agreed with Callahan's view, as well as health care professionals, politicians,
judges, and others, ultimately accomplishing their goal of redefining the
administration of food and hydration via a feeding tube.
Today, either the
general public is unaware of this change, or they just don't care. But if
you think dehydrating to death our medically vulnerable isn't happening, then
you are not paying attention.
Whatever the reason, the
mainstream media does very little to properly clear up any confusion that may
exist, as they continue to report that persons who receive food and water via
feeding tubes are receiving "artificial life support," giving the
perception that these people are aided by machines.
Tragically, too many of
us today have become disconnected and desensitized to our own dignity and
intrinsic worth. It seems we no longer know how to love, and we place
more significance and value on what a person can or cannot do, instead of
understanding the value and dignity of the human person simply because they are
human.
As a consequence, every
single day decisions are being made for our medically defenseless to be
barbarically starved and dehydrated to death. Not to mention the offensive
claim that to slowly dehydrate persons to death over a period of weeks is
"an act of compassion;" that they are somehow experiencing death in a
dignified way. This is not compassion. This is not love. This
is intentionally killing, and in the most undignified way.
Recently, Germany made
the decision to inaugurate a memorial for the people with physical and mental
disabilities who, because of their disabilities, were killed by the Nazis after
their lives were deemed "worthless." Estimates are that over
200,000 were killed.
Perhaps we should
consider erecting one here in the United States.
Bobby Schindler is Executive Director of The
Terri Schiavo Life and Hope Network. The preceding is an article that
appeared in lifeandhope, the publication of the Terri Schiavo Life and Hope
Network, Volume 6 / 2nd Edition / www.lifeandhope.com, pgs. 4 - 5. Please
visit www.lifeandhope.com.
'Sadly, these are just a few more
recent examples of the life-threatening prejudices plaguing the disability
community and countless others who are medically vulnerable. Indeed, this
terrible toll does not arise in a cultural vacuum, but reflects attitudes that
assume dead is better than disabled.'
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The following article
appeared in Lifeline, a publication of the Life Legal Defense Foundation,
Summer 2015 issue (starting on page 1). For more info. on Life Legal
Defense Foundation please write them at P.O. Box 2105, Napa, CA 94558, or phone
them at (707) 224-6675, or visit them at www.LLDF.org.
Planned Parenthood sells dead baby parts on a
massive scale
Life Legal Defense Foundations was finally able
to reveal its sponsorship of a two-year sting operation proving that Planned
Parenthood routinely sells organs and tissues of babies aborted in its
self-proclaimed "health centers." This systematic profiteering
is known about and approved by officers at the abortion giant's highest levels
of authority. Planned Parenthood's abortionists will even alter the
abortion method in order to guarantee the tissues most sought after -
regardless of what might be best for the aborting mother.
The shocking results of the investigation are
being unveiled in a series of videos posted on the website of the Center for
Medical Progress. The first video, released on July 14, 2015, immediately
went viral and caused the site to crash two hours after opening. By the next
day, several congressional committees had announced that hearings would be held
to investigate whether Planned Parenthood was trafficking in fetal organs.
This "Human Capital" project was a
nearly three-year- long undertaking of the Center for Medical Progress
(CMP). Directed by CMP Project Lead David Daleiden, the effort secured
audio and video recordings of Planned Parenthood administrators and
abortionists casually agreeing to sell freshly-extracted parts from their abortions.
Among those recorded in Daleiden's operation are
prominent Planned Parenthood officers, including Dr. Deborah Nucatola, Senior
Director of Medical Services, Planned Parenthood Federation of America:
"So I say, 'what are you looking to supply
today?"
[Later] "We have been very good at [getting]
heart, lung, liver ... because we know that, so I'm not gonna crush that part,
I'm gonna basically crush below, I'm gonna crush what is above, I'm gonna see
if I can get it all intact."
Cecil Richards, President and CEO of the Planned
Parenthood Federation of America:
[Acknowledging the work of Dr. Nucatola] "Oh
great. She's amazing..."
Dr. Mary Gatter, Presidetn, Medical Directors'
Council, PPFA:
[Asked if $100 per sample would "keep her
happy"] "I want a Lamborghini..."
Life Legal gives credit for these revelations to
David Daleiden. But David Daleiden gives a lot of the credit to Life
Legal: "Life legal demonstrated both initiative and foresight in providing
seed money for the Human Capital Project. Life legal had no way of
knowing that the project would succeed in the long run. Their advice and
assistance has been essential!"
Familiar as we are with the contract killer's
practices, Life Legal can't claim to be surprised by Planned Parenthood's utter
disregard for medical ethics. But we are delighted that it has been so
ably and thoroughly documented by David Daleiden.
Life Legal is proud to have played an active,
essential role in exposing Planned Parenthood's ghoulish work. Katie
Short, Life Legal's Vice President for legal Affairs, remarked, "Planned
Parenthood's unconscionable acts are recorded and proven. But if there
are to be further consequences, the public needs to keep the pressure on.
After these revelations, the first thing every public official should be asked
is why a penny of taxpayer money is going to fund any part of Planned
Parenthood's activities."
"But beyond that," Short emphasized,
"we should not lose sight of the fact that these horrific acts are taking
place against a backdrop of legal baby-killing. When all the
investigations are over and the laws about fetal tissue trafficking have been
examined and re-examined, will we still be a country that tolerates the mutilation,
dismemberment, and killing of preborn children?"
Having been with the project from its inception,
Life Legal is committed to following through. Planned Parenthood will not
lightly escape the judgment it has merited by trafficking in babies' eyes,
hearts, livers, muscles, and other organs and tissues.
end of article . . . . . .
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