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To: xzins

Ruling says they can, not that they have to.

Doctors can perform abortions, or choose not to.

Also the distinction between the physician doing the killing (ie pushing a bolus of morphine or potassium) versus giving the patient the means to do it themselves. Latter happens regularly. Any diabetic can inject themselves with an entire vial of insulin and kill themselves. Or ingest their one month supply of pain meds with the same result. Is then the prescribing of these meds ‘assisted suicide’?


27 posted on 01/13/2014 3:05:46 PM PST by tips up (Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see.)
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To: tips up

I never accept the taking of life, self or otherwise.

To many great reasons not to do so.


33 posted on 01/13/2014 3:13:11 PM PST by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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To: tips up

Ruling says they can, not that they have to.

Doctors can perform abortions, or choose not to.

^ This is a KEY distinction.

Were the ruling “you have to”, I would be screaming bloody murder. All this ruling means is that doctors cannot be hauled off like Democrat-voting, welfare-mooching street pharmacists for giving a terminally ill patient enough morphine to not go through agony we wouldn’t let a PET go through.


84 posted on 01/14/2014 4:48:18 AM PST by EternalHope13
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