Friday, April 27, 2018
Euthanasia Prevention Coalition: Nancy Elliott: Reject New York assisted suicide bi...
Euthanasia Prevention Coalition: Nancy Elliott: Reject New York assisted suicide bi...: Proponents say that this is about autonomy and choice. Nothing could be further from the truth. Nancy Elliott Dear Assemblymembe...
Euthanasia Prevention Coalition: 20% of End-of-life medical decisions made without ...
Euthanasia Prevention Coalition: 20% of End-of-life medical decisions made without ...: 10% of Flemish (Belgium) cancer patients die by euthanasia. The following article was published by Bioedge on April 8, 2018. Mic...
Tuesday, April 24, 2018
The following letter is from the newsletter of Bobby Schindler, brother of Terri Schiavo. There seems to be no end to the evil which masquerades as "choice":
Schindler:
I want to share two names and stories with you this morning.
Alfie Evans, a precious infant with an undiagnosed condition requiring a ventilator.
Vincent Lambert, a disabled non-terminal adult who simply needs assisted food and water.
European courts have ruled in two separate decisions today that both Alfie and Vincent are to die. Alfie, by court order to physicians to deny oxygen to the infant against the parents wishes. Vincent, by court order to deny him food and water, starving him to death at the request of his wife. Vincent faces almost precisely the same fate as Terri Schiavo.
To some, it might seem ironic that one of the only voices for sanity in either case has been the Catholic Church. First, in Alfie's case of offering to take the child and care for him in a Vatican hospital. And second, in Vincent's case, where Elio Sgreccia, a cardinal and bioethicist who defended Terri many years ago, and is again pointing out the potential for Vincent to recover from his PVS diagnosis. He has stated clearly that Vincent "is not terminally ill and may still live a long time when treated with care." Denying Vincent food and water would be a violation of the man’s basic human rights, Sgreccia contends.
I am thinking especially of both Alfie's and Vincent's parents right now. They, like my own parents in Terri's fight, are victims nearly as much as their children who are about to die by court order. It is unthinkable, and it my heart breaks for Alfie, for Vincent, and for those who love them unconditionally and demonstrate that love with a desire to care rather than to bring about death.
What we are witnessing is the increasing power of a global euthanasia mentality. Those who advocated for so-called "limited" or "reasonable" allowances for euthanasia in certain instances, or for assisted suicide, know that inevitable the "limits" fall away once the primary reason for euthanasia captures the minds of a culture. And that primary reason is, in essence, the attitude that we need a way to remove undesirable persons whom those in power decide have a "quality of life" insufficient to justify their existence.
In practice, the right to euthanasia will always and everywhere be primarily a right for the state to euthanatize its must vulnerable citizens.
God bless you,
Bobby Schindler
Schindler:
I want to share two names and stories with you this morning.
Alfie Evans, a precious infant with an undiagnosed condition requiring a ventilator.
Vincent Lambert, a disabled non-terminal adult who simply needs assisted food and water.
European courts have ruled in two separate decisions today that both Alfie and Vincent are to die. Alfie, by court order to physicians to deny oxygen to the infant against the parents wishes. Vincent, by court order to deny him food and water, starving him to death at the request of his wife. Vincent faces almost precisely the same fate as Terri Schiavo.
To some, it might seem ironic that one of the only voices for sanity in either case has been the Catholic Church. First, in Alfie's case of offering to take the child and care for him in a Vatican hospital. And second, in Vincent's case, where Elio Sgreccia, a cardinal and bioethicist who defended Terri many years ago, and is again pointing out the potential for Vincent to recover from his PVS diagnosis. He has stated clearly that Vincent "is not terminally ill and may still live a long time when treated with care." Denying Vincent food and water would be a violation of the man’s basic human rights, Sgreccia contends.
I am thinking especially of both Alfie's and Vincent's parents right now. They, like my own parents in Terri's fight, are victims nearly as much as their children who are about to die by court order. It is unthinkable, and it my heart breaks for Alfie, for Vincent, and for those who love them unconditionally and demonstrate that love with a desire to care rather than to bring about death.
What we are witnessing is the increasing power of a global euthanasia mentality. Those who advocated for so-called "limited" or "reasonable" allowances for euthanasia in certain instances, or for assisted suicide, know that inevitable the "limits" fall away once the primary reason for euthanasia captures the minds of a culture. And that primary reason is, in essence, the attitude that we need a way to remove undesirable persons whom those in power decide have a "quality of life" insufficient to justify their existence.
In practice, the right to euthanasia will always and everywhere be primarily a right for the state to euthanatize its must vulnerable citizens.
God bless you,
Bobby Schindler
Friday, April 20, 2018
Wesley Smith Notes Glaring Omission of Trump Administration
Note: While Wesley Smith makes an excellent observation, the notion that Tru;mp does not care is a bit harsh. There are many appointments that Trump still needs to make and all are hampered by the foot dragging of democrats who wish to delay appointments as much as possible.
Weslely Smith: "President Donald J. Trump could care less about biotechnology. How else to explain his total failure to engage the most important and portentous biotechnological issues of our day?.. the president hasn’t even taken the rudimentary step of appointing a bioethics advisory council to advise him, Congress, and the public about the many ethical and safety concerns augured by recent research advances. Nor has he named a Science Advisor to give him informed in-house guidance."
According to Smith, "Ignoring ethical and safety challenges presented by powerful emerging technologies will not make the problems they pose disappear.Though the term “playing God” is a cliché, it aptly describes the naked power scientists are accumulating, which could lead to the substantial manipulation of biology on the planet, the creation of new and novel life forms, perhaps even the destruction (or elimination) of entire species if these technologies are mismanaged."
CRISPR: stands for: “Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeat.” CRISPR is probably the most consequential technological invention since scientists learned to split the atom. CRISPR allows scientists to alter the genetic makeup of any cell or lifeform—viruses, bacteria, plants, animals, and us. If these alterations are done on sperm, eggs, or early embryos, the genetic alterations inserted into the organism will flow down the generations. Visit: www.discovery.org/a/25403
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