Posted on 10/02/2008 12:18:33 AM PDT by Canticle_of_Deborah
Schwarzenegger signs euthanasia measure into law
California moved a step closer to legalized mercy killing on Sept. 30, when Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed into law the “California Right to Know End-of-Life Act of 2008.”
The governor’s signature came in a flurry of bill signing on Tuesday evening, just hours before the statutory deadline for him to either sign or veto legislation. The governor’s press office announced he had signed the euthanasia bill at 7 p.m.
The bill, AB 2747, by longtime assisted suicide advocate Assemblywoman Patty Berg, D-Eureka, could force Catholic physicians and other doctors in California who oppose mercy killing to provide terminally ill patients with information on morally questionable “end-of-life care options.”
Schwarzenegger’s decision to sign the bill came despite heavy lobbying against it by the California Catholic Conference, the public policy arm of the state’s bishops. The Conference had asked Catholics to contact the governor and urge him to veto AB 2747 after it was passed by the legislature. Schwarzenegger describes himself as a Catholic.
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I guess he really is the Terminator
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Haven’t read the actual bill, but from the text of it, it seems troubling. Every person has the right to self-determination, but this seems to force physicians’ hands. Of course, the pre-abortion notification requirements do that, too, so it’s hard to use the government-interference argument to fight this.
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Within 10 years, there will be companies set up to negotiate the suicide of individuals with significant pension annuities and long term private medical benefits. These individuals will be offered a lump sum payment to be made to themselves of their heirs on the condition they agree to assisted suicide on some specified date.
These arrangements will permit payers of pension annuities and medical insurers to reduce expenses by consolidating these long-term liabilities into discounted lump-sum payments. Even with a hefty discount, these payments could be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not more, depending on the actuarial life expectency of the individual and the level of benefits.
Laws like this one in California lay the groundwork to make such a system possible. Now all that is required is a company so soul-less and immoral that they are willing to profit from the premature deaths of their clients. I defy anybody to watch daytime television for more than a few hours and conclude that such a company will not spring up almost immediately.
Gov S of Calif, a “Republican” has signed more severe anti-2nd Amendment laws into being than his Dem Party predecessor.
It speaks poorly of a “Republican” Governor when he makes his Liberal Dem predecessor look conservative.
NY has the far left Bloomberg. And Calif is afflicted with the idiot Gov S. All those years of steriods shrunk more than one part of his body?
I read through the 5 PDF pages of AB2747 bill and I can’t find anthing about assisted suicide. Doctors are supposed to advise patients of their options which they already do - e.g. chemotherapy; full court press including CPR versus “no code” status; stomach tube versus no stomach tube I.V fluids; etc. Aside from more laws dictated to doctors, what specifically is the objection to this bill? I suppose this could be the way liberals are setting the stage so that when other end-of-life suicide options are available in California then the doctor is obligated to discuss it with their patients.
Here’s the URL: http://www.statesurge.com/bills/50327-ab2747-california
I am 100% against assisted suicide. I am thankful that my best friend had a good doctor who provided morphine to help her through the last few days of her life as she struggled to breathe.
We already have companies that profit from the statistically expected deaths of their clients. How would this be that much different?
There is a vast difference between a person choosing to end life's pain, and the taking of a viable innocent non-consenting life in the womb. That's why I refer to myself as anti-abortion, and not the catch-all term of pro-life.
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It's time for the life issue to become a battle cry!
Creator-endowed right to life and liberty is the foundation upon which this nation was founded.
If a nation devalues that concept, basing an individual's right to life and liberty on judicial fiat and a woman or girl's decision, then where is the security for liberty for any?
The elephant in the room in this election is the Radical Left's absolute determination that it, alone, will decide who sits on the Supreme Court of the United States! They talk about "change," they talk about war, they talk about everything else, but the "elephant" is the question of the unfettered right of a woman to destroy her unborn child. To the Left, this is a declared war on all opposition.
Yes, it is time for John McCain to take off the gloves on exposing the real culprits in the government who forced banks to make risky loans to unqualified people, but for the sake of liberty for generations yet unborn, it is far more important that he clarify the importance of the life issue, and the threat to liberty if Obama carries out the Left's agenda. Soft pedaling this issue, as if it is just a personal preference, overlooks a far more significant principle.
"The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time: the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them."- Thomas Jefferson
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