Euthanasia, Physicians, and the State
- An Essay on Coercion of the Medical Profession and What It Portends
by Dr. Tamzin Rosenwasser
March 2024
Government is force, not charity. Like fire, government is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never, for a moment, should it be left to irresponsible action. Whether George Washington said that or not, it is true. Medical care is not a proper function of government, but government has been allowed to interfere in medical care ever since Lyndon Johnson bought votes with Medicare and Medicaid in 1965. With use of taxpayer-paid medical care bankrupting us, the government response has been to introduce the idea of kindly murdering people, supposedly to free them from pain, depression, disability, and so on, under the title of “assisted suicide,” and “Medical Assistance in Dying.”
Such things are instituted with the soothing anodyne of “guidelines” to quiet objectors. However, some things are wrong, evil, and taking helpless life is one of those things. When an evil is legitimized in such a false way, we can predict that the slippery slope problem will soon arise.
Thus it is that the advocates of “assisted suicide” attempt to coerce physicians who refuse to commit “assisted suicide.” [Ftn. 1] The Executive Director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, Alex Schadenberg, has detailed the steps taken in the wake of the “assisted suicide” death movement. [Ftn. 2]
One of the first was to try to force physicians with conscientious objections (I would hope that to be 100% of physicians) to refer the patient to someone without a conscience. In other words, to attempt to force physicians with respect for life into becoming accessories to crime rather than the major actor in the crime.
Another step to attempt to force physicians to take a person’s life is statutes from state legislatures prohibiting “health care entities” from refusing to provide “assisted suicide.” That way, an institution, including a religious institution, is pressured to violate its principles. The institution is ordered by the statute to sit idly by while a physician on its staff kills a patient. Washington State Senate Bill 5179 (2023-24) expanded to physician assistants and nurse practitioners the authority to kill patients.
Next, Quebec, Canada, in June 2023 passed Bill 11, to coerce palliative care institutions to provide “Medical Assistance in Dying.” Catholic hospitals are also being targeted. Palliative Care refers to caring for patients who are expected to die soon. But if they are going to die soon, the bill seems to say, why not now?
Similar laws have passed in Australia.
As a matter of fact, since we will all die someday, why not now? If we are a nuisance to someone in power, a drag on society, why not kill those of us who are not wanted by some powerful entity? Why should that be a crime, if killing helpless people is not a crime? It was no crime in Nazi Germany. It was no crime in the USSR and is no crime in Communist China, to kill troublesome people. In fact, governments intentionally killed more people in the 20th Century than heart disease, cancer, and World Wars One and Two combined. Millions more.
Dr Catherine Ferrier, a board member of Living with Dignity, stated, “Politicians in Quebec seem to think that expansion of euthanasia is inevitable, and their role is to make it safe. It’s seen as an act of compassion.” [Ftn. 3] This is deceit.
In speaking of coercing doctors, a person on the internet identified as ‘Kathleen 1031’ wrote “No one can “force” you to do that. You decide you will do it because it is more convenient for you for one reason or another. Do not cooperate with evil.” She has expressed it exactly. Do not “comply” with evil laws.
Opposition to this evil has won some battles. In September 2022, US District Judge Fernando Aenlle-Rocha ruled that California SB 380 violates the First Amendment rights of doctors. There was a similar case in New Mexico.
Some considerations have received less publicity. For example, in perhaps the majority of cases where some State actor wants physicians to kill people, the people targeted could commit suicide without any “assistance” if they actually were set on that course of action. People who are depressed, sick, old, handicapped, and so on, are very often capable of killing themselves.
Such people now are being subjected to a more subtle form of coercion than the physicians but it is just as evil. When it is subtly suggested to people that others would be better off without them, that they are a burden, troublesome, and so on, it isolates them, and makes it more likely that they will accept an irreversible decision.
What are people “for”? They are to love and be loved. Human beings are not commodities. That they are being treated as such openly, warns us to bar government from all but the absolute essentials, as detailed in our Constitution’s Enumerated Powers in Article 1, Section 8. The enumerated powers of government do not include either medical care or education. We can take care of one another without the State telling us to kill people they consider useless. We did it before and we will do it again.
The death movement has another sinister effect. It would destroy the medical profession. The medical profession has one purpose, and that purpose is to take care of the sick, injured, helpless young or old, whether their problems are due to their faults or not, (as is sometimes the case.) The goal is to return the patient to as full health as possible, and if the patient is dying, to do everything possible to prevent pain and abandonment.
The parable of the Good Samaritan in Luke 10: 25-37 tells us how to love our neighbor. The State, the death cult, and the Globalists want to be God, but they are mere men.
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Dr. Rosenwasser is a physician who believes in life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. She is a Past-President of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons.
Footnotes
- An Essay on Coercion of the Medical Profession and What It Portends
by Dr. Tamzin Rosenwasser
March 2024
Government is force, not charity. Like fire, government is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never, for a moment, should it be left to irresponsible action. Whether George Washington said that or not, it is true. Medical care is not a proper function of government, but government has been allowed to interfere in medical care ever since Lyndon Johnson bought votes with Medicare and Medicaid in 1965. With use of taxpayer-paid medical care bankrupting us, the government response has been to introduce the idea of kindly murdering people, supposedly to free them from pain, depression, disability, and so on, under the title of “assisted suicide,” and “Medical Assistance in Dying.”
Such things are instituted with the soothing anodyne of “guidelines” to quiet objectors. However, some things are wrong, evil, and taking helpless life is one of those things. When an evil is legitimized in such a false way, we can predict that the slippery slope problem will soon arise.
Thus it is that the advocates of “assisted suicide” attempt to coerce physicians who refuse to commit “assisted suicide.” [Ftn. 1] The Executive Director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, Alex Schadenberg, has detailed the steps taken in the wake of the “assisted suicide” death movement. [Ftn. 2]
One of the first was to try to force physicians with conscientious objections (I would hope that to be 100% of physicians) to refer the patient to someone without a conscience. In other words, to attempt to force physicians with respect for life into becoming accessories to crime rather than the major actor in the crime.
Another step to attempt to force physicians to take a person’s life is statutes from state legislatures prohibiting “health care entities” from refusing to provide “assisted suicide.” That way, an institution, including a religious institution, is pressured to violate its principles. The institution is ordered by the statute to sit idly by while a physician on its staff kills a patient. Washington State Senate Bill 5179 (2023-24) expanded to physician assistants and nurse practitioners the authority to kill patients.
Next, Quebec, Canada, in June 2023 passed Bill 11, to coerce palliative care institutions to provide “Medical Assistance in Dying.” Catholic hospitals are also being targeted. Palliative Care refers to caring for patients who are expected to die soon. But if they are going to die soon, the bill seems to say, why not now?
Similar laws have passed in Australia.
As a matter of fact, since we will all die someday, why not now? If we are a nuisance to someone in power, a drag on society, why not kill those of us who are not wanted by some powerful entity? Why should that be a crime, if killing helpless people is not a crime? It was no crime in Nazi Germany. It was no crime in the USSR and is no crime in Communist China, to kill troublesome people. In fact, governments intentionally killed more people in the 20th Century than heart disease, cancer, and World Wars One and Two combined. Millions more.
Dr Catherine Ferrier, a board member of Living with Dignity, stated, “Politicians in Quebec seem to think that expansion of euthanasia is inevitable, and their role is to make it safe. It’s seen as an act of compassion.” [Ftn. 3] This is deceit.
In speaking of coercing doctors, a person on the internet identified as ‘Kathleen 1031’ wrote “No one can “force” you to do that. You decide you will do it because it is more convenient for you for one reason or another. Do not cooperate with evil.” She has expressed it exactly. Do not “comply” with evil laws.
Opposition to this evil has won some battles. In September 2022, US District Judge Fernando Aenlle-Rocha ruled that California SB 380 violates the First Amendment rights of doctors. There was a similar case in New Mexico.
Some considerations have received less publicity. For example, in perhaps the majority of cases where some State actor wants physicians to kill people, the people targeted could commit suicide without any “assistance” if they actually were set on that course of action. People who are depressed, sick, old, handicapped, and so on, are very often capable of killing themselves.
Such people now are being subjected to a more subtle form of coercion than the physicians but it is just as evil. When it is subtly suggested to people that others would be better off without them, that they are a burden, troublesome, and so on, it isolates them, and makes it more likely that they will accept an irreversible decision.
What are people “for”? They are to love and be loved. Human beings are not commodities. That they are being treated as such openly, warns us to bar government from all but the absolute essentials, as detailed in our Constitution’s Enumerated Powers in Article 1, Section 8. The enumerated powers of government do not include either medical care or education. We can take care of one another without the State telling us to kill people they consider useless. We did it before and we will do it again.
The death movement has another sinister effect. It would destroy the medical profession. The medical profession has one purpose, and that purpose is to take care of the sick, injured, helpless young or old, whether their problems are due to their faults or not, (as is sometimes the case.) The goal is to return the patient to as full health as possible, and if the patient is dying, to do everything possible to prevent pain and abandonment.
The parable of the Good Samaritan in Luke 10: 25-37 tells us how to love our neighbor. The State, the death cult, and the Globalists want to be God, but they are mere men.
_____________________________
Dr. Rosenwasser is a physician who believes in life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. She is a Past-President of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons.
Footnotes
- Michael Cook, World Medical Association Wants to Force Doctors to Make Referrals for Abortions or Euthanasia. BioEdge.Com June 1, 2021.
- Alex Schadenberg, Washington State House Bill 1035 Prevents Health Care Entities from Prohibiting Assisted Suicide. Euthanasia Prevention Coalition.
- Lee Harding, The Epoch Times, June 13, 2023.