Tuesday, January 26, 2016

"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. . . . . "


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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.

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