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"A society that does not respect life is in trouble." - ZLW
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Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote a book in 2006 criticizing assisted suicide and euthanasia. The book argues that human life is intrinsically valuable and intentional killing is always wrong. Imagine that. Moral absolutes, what a refreshing notion in a world fast succumbing to post-modern gibberish. |
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Weaknesses in the Left's Narrative
Assisted suicide laws put you on a slippery slope; restrictions tend to loosen over time.
- Assisted suicide was originally sold on the basis it was the only way to keep people from having to suffer unbearable pain. The assertion is not true.
Advances in pain treatment and hospice care rebut argument assisted suicide needed to alleviate suffering
http://freebeacon.com/issues/marine-vet-and-doctor-fight-assisted-suicide-in-nevada/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=758550a710-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_04&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-758550a710-45628225
- Once assisted suicide becomes law, advocates invariably move beyond pain and suffering and seek to extend the law for a whole host of transitory, treatable, and trivial reasons.
Existential distress – not pain as claimed – primary reason for assisted suicide.
http://www.lifenews.com/2017/06/05/the-reason-why-people-kill-themselves-in-assisted-suicides-is-not-what-most-people-think/
“Oregon Senate Committee Passes Bill to Allow Starving Mentally Ill Patients to Death” (protections removed)
http://www.lifenews.com/2017/06/06/oregon-senate-committee-passes-bill-to-allow-starving-mentally-ill-patients-to-death/
“Italian Bill Would Allow Dehydrating Patients to Death” (abuse a certainty if passed)
http://www.lifenews.com/2017/06/06/italian-bill-would-allow-dehydrating-patients-to-death/ Euthanasia agenda out in the open – perpetual extension: tinnitus, blindness, fear of nursing home, etc.
http://www.lifenews.com/2017/05/05/australia-pushes-euthanasia-even-before-legalizing-it/
Canadian court puffs up definition of ‘terminal’ to include insomnia and muscle spasms.
http://www.lifenews.com/2017/04/25/woman-who-had-muscle-spasms-and-insomnia-is-euthanized-after-doctors-said-problems-werent-treatable/
‘Death with dignity’ sounds great, but there are just too many things that go wrong with assisted suicide.
Another example of prognoses of death being so wrong so much of the time.
http://www.lifenews.com/2017/06/06/doctors-told-mom-to-abort-her-twin-babies-because-they-would-die-at-birth-now-theyre-5-months-old/
“Elder Abuse is a Clear Consequence When Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide Are Legalized”
http://www.lifenews.com/2017/06/15/elder-abuse-is-a-clear-consequence-when-euthanasia-and-assisted-suicide-are-legalized/
Belgium: “32% of People Killed in Assisted Suicides Were Actually Euthanized Against Their Will”
http://www.lifenews.com/2017/05/30/32-of-people-killed-in-assisted-suicides-were-actually-euthanized-against-their-will/
More problems with Belgian euthanasia law: illegal killings by nurses, 47% of assisted deaths not reported
http://www.lifenews.com/2017/05/30/32-of-people-killed-in-assisted-suicides-were-actually-euthanized-against-their-will/
“Oregon Bill Allows Starving Mentally Ill Patients to Death” (the ‘food is medicine’ charade continues)
http://www.lifenews.com/2017/05/22/oregon-bill-allows-starving-mentally-ill-patients-to-death/
Problems w/assisted suicide: health insurers deny life-saving treatment, false death certificates keep it hidden.
http://www.lifenews.com/2017/05/19/congressman-gives-eye-popping-lecture-on-the-problems-with-legalizing-assisted-suicide/
Assisted suicide laws permit ‘perfect crime’ – heirs can sign you up, give you lethal dose without oversight
http://www.lifenews.com/2017/05/10/new-york-bill-would-make-it-the-next-state-to-legalize-assisted-suicide/
Doc tempts patient with suicide when wife out of the room; man lives 5 more years. #DeathWithIndignity
http://hawaiifreepress.com/main/ArticlesDailyNews/tabid/65/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/3647/February-2011-Letters-to-the-Editor.aspx
10% of assisted suicides in Quebec found to violate ‘safeguards’ in ambiguously worded law.
http://www.lifenews.com/2017/03/15/canadian-doctors-are-refusing-to-kill-their-patients-in-assisted-suicides/
Follow the money – some of the people pushing euthanasia and assisted suicide stand to make money from it.
Euro docs want to harvest organs of euthanasia victims. First we kill them, then we monetize them.
http://www.lifenews.com/2017/04/11/doctors-call-for-more-organ-harvesting-from-euthanasia-victims/
This is chilling. The real reason behind the euthanasia push. #FollowtheMoney
http://www.lifenews.com/2017/03/29/canadian-surgeons-harvesting-the-organs-of-euthanized-patients/
The assisted suicide narrative is defective because it depends on cover-up and concealment to prevent public opposition.
Assisted suicide cheerleaders deny reports insurers withhold life-saving treatment when euthanasia an option
http://freebeacon.com/issues/marine-vet-and-doctor-fight-assisted-suicide-in-nevada/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=758550a710-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_04&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-758550a710-45628225
Australia lawmakers hiding assisted suicide bill; not published, no public input.
http://www.lifenews.com/2017/06/12/australia-mps-introduce-bill-to-legalize-assisted-suicide-with-no-public-input/
Assisted suicide lobby running assisted suicide laws in California and Oregon; no oversight; secrecy abounds.
http://www.lifenews.com/2017/06/02/at-least-504-people-wanted-to-kill-themselves-in-california-under-the-new-assisted-suicide-law/
“Aid in dying” a euphemism “to conceal the very nature of the death-dealing action it describes.”
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/how-one-cardinal-believes-euthanasia-can-be-shown-as-toxic-71212/
Systemic euthanasia continues covertly in UK NHS, critics say.
https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/health-care/item/25567-does-single-payer-signal-a-solution
It’s time to make an issue of the coercion employed in furthering the assisted suicide and euthanasia narrative.
Canadian nurse fired for refusing to participate in euthanasia – “We did not sign up to kill people.”
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/canadian-nurse-forced-out-of-practice-after-refusing-to-participate-in-euth
Ontario rejects doctor conscience rights; some may leave instead of making assisted suicide referrals.
http://www.lifenews.com/2017/05/19/canadian-doctors-will-leave-if-forced-to-participate-in-assisted-suicides/
Vermont order forcing docs to inform patients of assisted suicide comes from fascistic Left. What would Hitler do?
http://www.lifenews.com/2017/04/05/this-state-is-trying-to-force-doctors-and-health-care-workers-to-give-patients-info-on-assisted-suicide/
Canada may force docs to assist suicide as law’s safeguards increasingly viewed as hurdles. #FreeeYourInnerFascist
http://www.lifenews.com/2017/02/08/will-canada-force-doctors-to-participate-in-assisted-suicides/
Stupid Propaganda Tricks
“Prepare for twisted words promoting assisted suicide” – medicine means ‘a substance to cause death’
https://uintacountyherald.com/article/prepare-for-twisted-words-promoting-assisted-suicide
A society that does not respect life is in trouble.
“Father Sells His Baby Boy on Social Media So He and His Girlfriend Could Buy New Phones”. #RespectLife
http://www.lifenews.com/2017/06/08/father-sells-his-baby-boy-on-social-media-so-he-and-his-girlfriends-could-buy-new-phones/
“Mother Stabs Her Newborn to Death Because She Thought a Baby Would “Harm” Her Career”. #RespectLife
http://www.lifenews.com/2017/06/08/mother-stabs-her-newborn-to-death-because-she-thought-a-baby-would-harm-her-career/
Family holds down unwilling euthanasia victim in the Netherlands. Ye gads - where is this headed?
http://www.lifenews.com/2017/02/02/doctor-cleared-after-having-family-hold-down-patient-while-she-was-euthanized/
Assisted suicide laws put you on a slippery slope; restrictions tend to loosen over time.
- Assisted suicide was originally sold on the basis it was the only way to keep people from having to suffer unbearable pain. The assertion is not true.
Advances in pain treatment and hospice care rebut argument assisted suicide needed to alleviate suffering
http://freebeacon.com/issues/marine-vet-and-doctor-fight-assisted-suicide-in-nevada/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=758550a710-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_04&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-758550a710-45628225
- Once assisted suicide becomes law, advocates invariably move beyond pain and suffering and seek to extend the law for a whole host of transitory, treatable, and trivial reasons.
Existential distress – not pain as claimed – primary reason for assisted suicide.
http://www.lifenews.com/2017/06/05/the-reason-why-people-kill-themselves-in-assisted-suicides-is-not-what-most-people-think/
“Oregon Senate Committee Passes Bill to Allow Starving Mentally Ill Patients to Death” (protections removed)
http://www.lifenews.com/2017/06/06/oregon-senate-committee-passes-bill-to-allow-starving-mentally-ill-patients-to-death/
“Italian Bill Would Allow Dehydrating Patients to Death” (abuse a certainty if passed)
http://www.lifenews.com/2017/06/06/italian-bill-would-allow-dehydrating-patients-to-death/ Euthanasia agenda out in the open – perpetual extension: tinnitus, blindness, fear of nursing home, etc.
http://www.lifenews.com/2017/05/05/australia-pushes-euthanasia-even-before-legalizing-it/
Canadian court puffs up definition of ‘terminal’ to include insomnia and muscle spasms.
http://www.lifenews.com/2017/04/25/woman-who-had-muscle-spasms-and-insomnia-is-euthanized-after-doctors-said-problems-werent-treatable/
‘Death with dignity’ sounds great, but there are just too many things that go wrong with assisted suicide.
Another example of prognoses of death being so wrong so much of the time.
http://www.lifenews.com/2017/06/06/doctors-told-mom-to-abort-her-twin-babies-because-they-would-die-at-birth-now-theyre-5-months-old/
“Elder Abuse is a Clear Consequence When Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide Are Legalized”
http://www.lifenews.com/2017/06/15/elder-abuse-is-a-clear-consequence-when-euthanasia-and-assisted-suicide-are-legalized/
Belgium: “32% of People Killed in Assisted Suicides Were Actually Euthanized Against Their Will”
http://www.lifenews.com/2017/05/30/32-of-people-killed-in-assisted-suicides-were-actually-euthanized-against-their-will/
More problems with Belgian euthanasia law: illegal killings by nurses, 47% of assisted deaths not reported
http://www.lifenews.com/2017/05/30/32-of-people-killed-in-assisted-suicides-were-actually-euthanized-against-their-will/
“Oregon Bill Allows Starving Mentally Ill Patients to Death” (the ‘food is medicine’ charade continues)
http://www.lifenews.com/2017/05/22/oregon-bill-allows-starving-mentally-ill-patients-to-death/
Problems w/assisted suicide: health insurers deny life-saving treatment, false death certificates keep it hidden.
http://www.lifenews.com/2017/05/19/congressman-gives-eye-popping-lecture-on-the-problems-with-legalizing-assisted-suicide/
Assisted suicide laws permit ‘perfect crime’ – heirs can sign you up, give you lethal dose without oversight
http://www.lifenews.com/2017/05/10/new-york-bill-would-make-it-the-next-state-to-legalize-assisted-suicide/
Doc tempts patient with suicide when wife out of the room; man lives 5 more years. #DeathWithIndignity
http://hawaiifreepress.com/main/ArticlesDailyNews/tabid/65/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/3647/February-2011-Letters-to-the-Editor.aspx
10% of assisted suicides in Quebec found to violate ‘safeguards’ in ambiguously worded law.
http://www.lifenews.com/2017/03/15/canadian-doctors-are-refusing-to-kill-their-patients-in-assisted-suicides/
Follow the money – some of the people pushing euthanasia and assisted suicide stand to make money from it.
Euro docs want to harvest organs of euthanasia victims. First we kill them, then we monetize them.
http://www.lifenews.com/2017/04/11/doctors-call-for-more-organ-harvesting-from-euthanasia-victims/
This is chilling. The real reason behind the euthanasia push. #FollowtheMoney
http://www.lifenews.com/2017/03/29/canadian-surgeons-harvesting-the-organs-of-euthanized-patients/
The assisted suicide narrative is defective because it depends on cover-up and concealment to prevent public opposition.
Assisted suicide cheerleaders deny reports insurers withhold life-saving treatment when euthanasia an option
http://freebeacon.com/issues/marine-vet-and-doctor-fight-assisted-suicide-in-nevada/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=758550a710-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_04&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-758550a710-45628225
Australia lawmakers hiding assisted suicide bill; not published, no public input.
http://www.lifenews.com/2017/06/12/australia-mps-introduce-bill-to-legalize-assisted-suicide-with-no-public-input/
Assisted suicide lobby running assisted suicide laws in California and Oregon; no oversight; secrecy abounds.
http://www.lifenews.com/2017/06/02/at-least-504-people-wanted-to-kill-themselves-in-california-under-the-new-assisted-suicide-law/
“Aid in dying” a euphemism “to conceal the very nature of the death-dealing action it describes.”
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/how-one-cardinal-believes-euthanasia-can-be-shown-as-toxic-71212/
Systemic euthanasia continues covertly in UK NHS, critics say.
https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/health-care/item/25567-does-single-payer-signal-a-solution
It’s time to make an issue of the coercion employed in furthering the assisted suicide and euthanasia narrative.
Canadian nurse fired for refusing to participate in euthanasia – “We did not sign up to kill people.”
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/canadian-nurse-forced-out-of-practice-after-refusing-to-participate-in-euth
Ontario rejects doctor conscience rights; some may leave instead of making assisted suicide referrals.
http://www.lifenews.com/2017/05/19/canadian-doctors-will-leave-if-forced-to-participate-in-assisted-suicides/
Vermont order forcing docs to inform patients of assisted suicide comes from fascistic Left. What would Hitler do?
http://www.lifenews.com/2017/04/05/this-state-is-trying-to-force-doctors-and-health-care-workers-to-give-patients-info-on-assisted-suicide/
Canada may force docs to assist suicide as law’s safeguards increasingly viewed as hurdles. #FreeeYourInnerFascist
http://www.lifenews.com/2017/02/08/will-canada-force-doctors-to-participate-in-assisted-suicides/
Stupid Propaganda Tricks
“Prepare for twisted words promoting assisted suicide” – medicine means ‘a substance to cause death’
https://uintacountyherald.com/article/prepare-for-twisted-words-promoting-assisted-suicide
A society that does not respect life is in trouble.
“Father Sells His Baby Boy on Social Media So He and His Girlfriend Could Buy New Phones”. #RespectLife
http://www.lifenews.com/2017/06/08/father-sells-his-baby-boy-on-social-media-so-he-and-his-girlfriends-could-buy-new-phones/
“Mother Stabs Her Newborn to Death Because She Thought a Baby Would “Harm” Her Career”. #RespectLife
http://www.lifenews.com/2017/06/08/mother-stabs-her-newborn-to-death-because-she-thought-a-baby-would-harm-her-career/
Family holds down unwilling euthanasia victim in the Netherlands. Ye gads - where is this headed?
http://www.lifenews.com/2017/02/02/doctor-cleared-after-having-family-hold-down-patient-while-she-was-euthanized/