Doctors face orders to 'kill on demand'

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | May 02, 2009 | Bob Unruh

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Physicians in Montana could be facing "kill-on-demand" orders from patients who want to commit suicide if a district court judge's opinion pending before the state Supreme Court is affirmed.

The case has attracted nominal attention nationwide, but lawyers with the Christian Legal Service have filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the pending case because of what it would mean to doctors within the state, as well as the precedent it would set.

The concern is over the attack on doctors' ethics and religious beliefs – as well as the Hippocratic oath – that may be violated by a demand that they prescribe deadly chemicals or in some other way assist in a person's death.

M. Casey Mattox, a lawyer with the CLS, told WND that states allowing a "right to die" across the country – Oregon and Washington – include an opt-out provision for physicians with ethical or religious opposition to participating in killing a patient.

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Makes sense until you realize that would affect pharmacists & young pharmtechs still in training.

That is the point. By making it over-the-counter, the pharmacists and techs would not be involved. You would just look on the shelf under "suicide". ;>)

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You would just look on the shelf under "suicide". ;>)

Excuse me Sir, "Which one works best"? "Fastest?" "Is this one the most painless?" Then you've got the 16 year old kid forced to sell it by checking them out.

Can I see your ID? "Friends" buying for minors?

Then there's the probability of those who'd use it to off people who are unaware, something like abort them both because a pregnancy is bad timing. She was despondent, because of the pregnancy.