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Posted on 01/14/2015 6:32:07 AM PST by wagglebee
In the 1990s the Canadian Supreme Court ruled that assisted suicide is not a constitutional right. But the Court has again taken up the issue–and hence, I suspect the handwriting is on the wall.
That seems so clear that culture of death advocates are already making serious proposals to determine the look of the beast that seems to be a-aborning. University of Victoria bioethicist Eike-Henner W. Kluge has made news with a “Legislative Proposal” that would:
1. Establish euthanasia death courts–also being proposed in the UK–in a country that doesn’t permit capital punishment;
2. Allow a broad license to be euthanized based on almost wholly subjective criteria;
3. Allow the courts to order the incompetent to be euthanized.
Here are a few specifics. First, the right to be killed would be totally subjective, based on “values” of the person wanting to die:
If a person suffers from an incurable and irremediable disease or medical condition, and if that person experiences the disease or condition as violating the fundamental values of that person.
Good grief, that could mean anything beyond the transitory.
There would be Death Courts:
that person may make application to a superior court for permission to request the assistance of a physician in terminating his life as quickly and as painlessly as possible in keeping with the fundamental values of that person;
Can you imagine who would teach the judges about how to decide these issues? It wouldn’t be professors or “experts” who believe in the sanctity/equality of human life or the Hippocratic Oath!
At least the suicidal patient has to be “competent.” But wait! The incompetent could be killed too:
Any person who suffers from an incurable and irremediable disease or medical condition, and who, by reason of incompetence, is unable to make application to a court as allowed under sec. yyy.1, may have such application made for him by a duly empowered proxy decision-maker using appropriate standards of proxy decision-making.
People who were never competent could be killed, by the way. What could go wrong?
Maybe I missed it, but there are no conscience exemptions provided for doctors–or for that matter, judges.
Also note: The killing would be paid for by the government as Canada has a single payer health care system.
Please don’t say that Canada would never adopt a killing regime so unconstrained as Kluge’s proposal. Quebec’s new law is almost as radical.
At the very least can we finally acknowledge that this issue is not about terminal illness?
Of course we can’t. We live in culture that shelters from reality through the intentional embrace of pretense.
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Euthanize the incompetent?
Let’s get Jeb and Mitt over there today.
Whew!
80% of the D.C. population!
...and the comparisons are valid.
Eugenics is back in style.
If this catches on, what ever will become of the Joe Bidens of the World?
Allow the courts to order the incompetent to be euthanized.
This is what the Nazi’s did prior to WWII and once it was found out a lot of people spoke out against it. The only time ANY court should be allowed to order the death of anyone should be in a capital punishment trial.
If we killed incompetents in the US we’d have to get a lot of new Congress critters. Not to mention mayors, governors, etc...
It is best to recognize the meaning of progressive incompetence.
In a country that has no death penalty for murderers, the incompetent can be euthanized. Does anyone else see the hypocrisy?
Jeepers...
100% of the White House and 95% of the congress. I also think we would lose a great percentage of our DMV’s.
One of them got angry with me yesterday just for calling it murder. You never know when you might be addressing someone who has a heavy burden they're trying to avoid facing. They tend to go off the rails and start making threats. It must be a very dark place to be.
Euthanasia hurts more than the intended victim. It damages the witnesses, the participants, and even those who orchestrate it. Especially those who orchestrate it. They kill their victim's body, but they kill their own soul.
First it’s just a suggestion. Purely voluntary. “We respect your right to choose.”
Then the health-care burocracy stops paying for needed treatment for those over a certain age.
Then they pay for euthanasia counselors.
Then they put “death doulas” on the government payroll.
Then they allow euthanasia for children.
Then it becomes court-ordered and compulsory.
May as well bring in a million or so jihadi-headchoppers. they would do the job and enjoy doing it.
If they are well connected, they’ll be on the death panels.
“Canadian proposal to euthanize non-integrated immigrants”
I’m sure this would go over great in their immigrant communities. Sometimes stretching the truth can point out the real truth.
The Canadian system of government has a Judicial branch that thinks they make the laws. Canada needs to reign in the courts so that they uphold the laws, and not be the ones to invent them.
If we were to euthanize the incompetent in the US most of Congress and state legislatures would be put down.
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