You might think it was rather odd that an auto mechanic instead of fixing cars helped to destroy them. You would notice the strange disconnect between a person dedicated to repairing cards instead helped to keep them from ever running again.
Unfortunately we have a much worse disconnect with so-called Physician-Assisted Suicide.
Montana legalizes euthanasia
When I saw the headline I wondered how that could happen in a state like Montana. Then I slapped my forehead and emitted a “doh” – judges of course.
Montana has become the third state to legalize euthanasia after its high court ruled December 31 that “we find nothing in Montana Supreme Court precedent or Montana statutes indicating that physician aid in dying is against public policy.”
“What the court did, in essence, was to place the issue back into the hands of the legislature, where it should be,” said Jeff Laszloffy of the Montana Family Foundation. “They said there’s nothing currently in statute that prohibits the practice. It’s now up to us to go into the next legislative session fully armed and ready to pass statutory language that says, once and for all, that physician assisted suicide is illegal in Montana.”
Well I guess you can’t blame those judges. After all a judge who thinks he can legislate has it backwards and just might think a physician trained to heal people would help them die instead. Even more messed are those doctors who get this wrong and have decided instead of “First, do no wrong” have selected “First, make sure somebody is paying for this.”
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At least they’re not talking about forced euthenasia.
Not yet.
“Well I guess you can’t blame those judges. After all a judge who thinks he can legislate has it backwards”
I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or not. It seems the judge did do what he had the power to do, which was to rule on a matter of clarity of local law. Granted, you would think that laws against murder would cover this but such is the legal climate in America. Better that the legislature push through wording that makes it clear beyond the shadow of a doubt.
At least they’re not talking about forced euthenasia.
The social justice, health care bill (it’s already done in Oregon) will ration health according to some bureaucrat’s formula.
It will work like the AF used to manage its motor vehicle fleet. Once a vehicle hit say six years old and 72,000 miles, they limited the amount of maintenace dollars they would spend on the vehicle.
Obamacare, when not paying for unborn baby murders, will set age, chronic illnesses and dollar limits on medical decisions.
Thank you for ruining my country, you ex-communicates that voted for Obama and the hateful dems.
Considering I’m picking up my M.D. in May, and considering the fact that I’m going into a field where here are a lot of terminally ill patients, laws like this frighten me. I never want to be in a position where I will be ASKED to euthanize a patient or, Heaven forbid, be FORCED to do so. I’ve often thought that, if our society is so hellbent (with an emphasis on hell) on figuring out how to legally kill people (infants in the womb, the ill, the convicted criminal), why not do the dignified thing and invent a new profession specialized in dealing death: the necrologist. That way, we can stop sullying the medical profession with that job and put euthanasia and abortion and execution in the hands of people who really care about and master killing. Blech.
Roe v. Wade (and its various sequelae) legalized euthanasia when practiced on the very young. This merely opens the door a bit wider.
Matt L: It’s a very old profession: executioner. They used to wear black hooded masks . . .
But, hey! 45,000,000 abortions, euthenasia, ESCR, gay marriage, etc. all okay as long as your social justice candidate (FIRST BLACK: tingle down my leg . . . ) is against waterboarding and capital punishment.
Thanks for ruining my country, ex-communicates that voted for President NAMBLA.
No, no, executioners kill people convicted of crimes that society regards as particularly serious breaches of societal order. The necrologist Matt L. proposes would also kill the innocent–babes in the womb, people who want to die, and people who may or may not want to die but are old and sick enough that someone else is deciding that for them. Maybe later we will add disabled infants and other such villains to the necrologists’ potential client list. It’s a pretty good idea for a new job; I’m sure the recruiters would be allowed on every college campus in the nation.
But, Matt L., the medical profession won’t be entirely unsullied: the first M.D. who refuses to write a referral to one of these specialists will have the pants sued off him.