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pgs. 4 - 5. It is posted free of charge here to help further the kingdom
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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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