In this latest example of a judge MAKING laws, district court judge Dorothy McCarter in Montana, one of the 'reddest' of the 'red' states, has issued a ruling giving its residents the 'right' to doctor assisted suicide.
Now we have the third state in the U.S. with this so-called right, but this time without any input whatsoever from its citizens.
Doctors who willingly take part in this bastardization of the medical profession, should by rights be barred from ever practicing medicine again, as it would be obvious by their actions that any Hippocratic oath they may have taken was meaningless.
My real fear, however, is the next step taken will be to FORCE doctors of whom this service is requested to comply, or risk losing their license. Anyone who thinks such a thing is impossible should know that here in Illinois, the governor of our state, Rod Blagojevich, without any 'vote' or input from the people, has forced pharmacists to issue the so-called 'morning after' abortion pill even if they have a religious or moral objection to doing so, or face legal action from the state.
If pharmacists can be forced to take part in the ending of a life, is it really so far-fetched to believe a judge or governor somewhere, looking to make a name for themselves, wouldn't try to do something similar with doctors in order to make it easier for someone to exercise their 'right' to assisted suicide?
I just wonder what kind of tragedy it is going to take to make the people who think these type of laws are wonderful to wise up and realize just what a slippery slope we are all on...
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What if: just like dentistry branched off from doctors...there was created a separate discipline called the Assisted Suicide Specialist...or ASS for short? Is there any room there for helping a person end their misery?
ASS for short...LOL. Seriously, however, keep my doctors and other medical professionals out of things like this. Otherwise, we will inevitably face situations like a persons life or death decided upon their ability to pay, etc....
too true...but what should we base our decision off of? There is a point in my existents where I want the right to end it all. I do not want to be full of tubes, immobile and doped up to high heaven on pharmaceuticals.
And hey I think you should have posted the whole of my last comment.
I didn't cut out or edit your comments in any way...I published them exactly as they were. Look under the 'Respect for Life' post. I think perhaps the comment you are referring to is there. I received two comments on the same subject from you on the same day. They were comments for two different posts, however.
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