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March 2, 2021
The Left’s Push for Euthanasia Is a Worldwide Scourge
The Left’s push for assisted suicide laws and euthanasia is a worldwide scourge that must be fought at every turn. Through lies and deceit, the Left has expanded the notion the government should help people kill themselves way beyond assisted suicide’s original rationale - ‘intractable pain’ which advances in pain medicine has all but wiped out.
Take Xavier Becerra, for example, Biden’s nominee for Secretary of HHS. He is a strong supporter of assisted suicide, because it supposedly provides relief to families. Not because it relieves the intractable pain of the patient, but because it makes life easier for family members.
He is not the only one to slip the bonds of the original rationale. Late last year, the Netherlands changed its rules to allow doctors to surreptitiously sedate dementia patients who signed a consent form at some point in the past, but might become agitated during euthanasia. This story illustrates a second shift in rationale: from something that patients want, to government-supported murder to get rid of undesirable populations. The push for euthanasia for dementia patients is ongoing in the U.S. Canada is currently debating bill C-7 which would allow getting rid of another undesirable population, the mentally ill who would start to be killed 24 months after the bill is passed. Tell me this: if the mentally ill cannot legally consent to a car loan, how can they consent to being euthanized? We’re a long way from consent and intractable pain.
Euthanasia is getting out of control in other ways, as well. Legal safeguards are being ignored in Belgium, where the number of euthanasia deaths is steadily increasing. Euthanasia has been expanded in the Netherlands to include children. Some doctors are salivating at the prospect of harvesting the organs of people who die from assisted suicide, and are therefore actively pushing it. A bill in Hawaii would expand assisted suicide to allow nurses to prescribe lethal drugs. The bill would also allow practitioners to phone in death approvals through telemedicine.
The rationales and methods of euthanasia keep expanding for no good reason. Opposition is spotty and not well-organized. Debate is ongoing in Spain, Australia, and many other countries. It is expected to be debated in more than 20 U.S. states this year. If you haven’t thought about the subject in awhile, you need to get caught up to date and realize the Left is busy expanding euthanasia left and right, hoodwinking you for its own nefarious purposes. What better way for the authoritarian Left to achieve its goal of ‘controlling the people’ than by telling them when they have to die. Government-directed death - that’s where all this is headed. Hopefully, you’ll begin to catch on to that fact and oppose euthanasia in your state.
The Left’s Push for Euthanasia Is a Worldwide Scourge
The Left’s push for assisted suicide laws and euthanasia is a worldwide scourge that must be fought at every turn. Through lies and deceit, the Left has expanded the notion the government should help people kill themselves way beyond assisted suicide’s original rationale - ‘intractable pain’ which advances in pain medicine has all but wiped out.
Take Xavier Becerra, for example, Biden’s nominee for Secretary of HHS. He is a strong supporter of assisted suicide, because it supposedly provides relief to families. Not because it relieves the intractable pain of the patient, but because it makes life easier for family members.
He is not the only one to slip the bonds of the original rationale. Late last year, the Netherlands changed its rules to allow doctors to surreptitiously sedate dementia patients who signed a consent form at some point in the past, but might become agitated during euthanasia. This story illustrates a second shift in rationale: from something that patients want, to government-supported murder to get rid of undesirable populations. The push for euthanasia for dementia patients is ongoing in the U.S. Canada is currently debating bill C-7 which would allow getting rid of another undesirable population, the mentally ill who would start to be killed 24 months after the bill is passed. Tell me this: if the mentally ill cannot legally consent to a car loan, how can they consent to being euthanized? We’re a long way from consent and intractable pain.
Euthanasia is getting out of control in other ways, as well. Legal safeguards are being ignored in Belgium, where the number of euthanasia deaths is steadily increasing. Euthanasia has been expanded in the Netherlands to include children. Some doctors are salivating at the prospect of harvesting the organs of people who die from assisted suicide, and are therefore actively pushing it. A bill in Hawaii would expand assisted suicide to allow nurses to prescribe lethal drugs. The bill would also allow practitioners to phone in death approvals through telemedicine.
The rationales and methods of euthanasia keep expanding for no good reason. Opposition is spotty and not well-organized. Debate is ongoing in Spain, Australia, and many other countries. It is expected to be debated in more than 20 U.S. states this year. If you haven’t thought about the subject in awhile, you need to get caught up to date and realize the Left is busy expanding euthanasia left and right, hoodwinking you for its own nefarious purposes. What better way for the authoritarian Left to achieve its goal of ‘controlling the people’ than by telling them when they have to die. Government-directed death - that’s where all this is headed. Hopefully, you’ll begin to catch on to that fact and oppose euthanasia in your state.
December 13, 2020
Canada Up Against Court-Ordered Deadline to Expand Euthanasia
All eyes on Canada as Parliament faces court-ordered Dec. 18th deadline to expand euthanasia beyond imminent death
Canada Up Against Court-Ordered Deadline to Expand Euthanasia
All eyes on Canada as Parliament faces court-ordered Dec. 18th deadline to expand euthanasia beyond imminent death
- Liberal MP opposes current bill because it allows people with transient despair to choose euthanasia
- Palliative care doctor: “As doctors we should be instilling hope, supporting resilience and using our expertise to find creative solutions to address health and well-being. Instead, we would be required to suggest assisted suicide as an option if this bill becomes law.”
- It will take many cases trying many sets of circumstances before the dimensions of this become clear
- Critics: government has a mandate to protect the life of its citizens, not help take it
- Advocacy group has already started the drumbeat for the new bill, arguing palliative care is not enough. #TheLeftNeverQuits
- Why don’t things ever move back in the other direction? In part, because there’s no activism pushing for it. Anti-euthanasia activists don’t go on offense, but merely try not to lose more ground. Shame on us.
- ‘Unbearable suffering’ is not solely a question of physical health; a large component is fear of future decline, dependence, and isolation triggered by an event like a fall.
- The emotional and social component seems addressable with, e.g., counseling, reassurance from family members, and volunteer programs like students making nursing home visits. Encouraging the elderly to push the Easy Button for assisted suicide seems more designed to advance the political agenda of the Left than it is to address ‘unbearable suffering’.
- Euthanasia is not just a failure of the people around the patient. It’s a failure and lack of imagination on the part of patients themselves to find a reason to get up in the morning. However, the choice is being conditioned by the Left’s withering assault on individualism. By pushing groupthink, collectivism, and identity politics, the Left weakens the individual’s sense of self-worth - ‘If I’m just an ant in somebody else’s ant colony, then what’s the point of going on living?’ Don’t you see how insidious the Left is? They claim to be ‘life-affirming’. They are anything but. They are deliberately weakening your sense of self so you become pliable and more easily controllable.
- Speaking of the Left wanting you pliable and more easily controllable, the total government of the National Socialists (Nazis) took control and mandated you to die when its ‘experts’ said your time was up. It’s no accident the Nazis considered individuals important only to the extent they embodied the potential of the race and the Thousand-Year Reich. The resemblance to today’s Left is not purely coincidental. If you’re going to reach Utopia and create Heaven on Earth, you gotta break a few eggs, right?
December 6, 2020
Government-Assisted Death Making Steady Advances
Tasmania’s lower house of parliament approves assisted suicide bill; next action March 2021
Group of 1,000 Canadian doctors call C-7 assisted dying bill “a reckless piece of legislation without adequate safeguards for the vulnerable”
‘Mercy’ killer expresses regret - ‘what I did was wrong and hurt my family’
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Government-Assisted Death Making Steady Advances
Tasmania’s lower house of parliament approves assisted suicide bill; next action March 2021
- Bill supposedly limited to the terminally ill, but we know how that goes
- What a wretched place. Glad I don’t live there. Belgium is in the grip of the nihilistic suicidal European Left.
- You want to kill yourself, fine. Don’t drag me into it with your laws. It’s not ‘physician-assisted suicide’, it’s ‘government-assisted suicide’.
- Canada’s 2016 assisted death law did not prevent euthanasia for mental illness alone
- This would not have been possible in the UK:
"Our current laws here in the UK, which ban both assisted suicide and euthanasia, exist to protect those who are sick, elderly, depressed or disabled from feeling obliged to end their lives - People like Nancy Russell who clearly felt alone, depressed and a burden, unable to cope with the isolation and restrictions of another Covid lockdown.”
"The current laws protect those who have no voice against exploitation and coercion and those who care for them who might come under pressure to save money on care costs. They do not need changing."
Group of 1,000 Canadian doctors call C-7 assisted dying bill “a reckless piece of legislation without adequate safeguards for the vulnerable”
- Provision in the bill requiring doctors to presented assisted death as an option “gives that impression to the patient that they may be better off dead, and that’s not the message we want to convey to our patients. It will create seeds of doubt in our patients’ minds, it will make them second guess and question whether the medical system has their care in mind.”
‘Mercy’ killer expresses regret - ‘what I did was wrong and hurt my family’
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