Canada Ping!
Posted on 02/06/2015 12:15:32 PM PST by BlatherNaut
In a momentous ruling this morning, Canada’s highest court unanimously ruled to open the door to a doctor helping kill someone nearing the end-of-life stage, a ruling comparable to the sweeping Morgentaler ruling 27 years ago that allowed a doctor to kill someone at the earliest pre-born stage of life.
In Carter v. Canada, the Court overturned a previous law prohibiting assisted suicide, in effect reversing the previous 1993 Rodriguez decision in which it said the state’s obligation to “protect the vulnerable” outweighed the rights of the individual to self-determination. The ruling makes Canada join the ranks of Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Belgium, as well as Oregon and Washington, in allowing assisted suicide.
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The original hippocratic oath:
I swear by Apollo the physician that I will observe and keep this underwritten oath, to the utmost of my power and judgment.
I will reverence my master who taught me the art. Equally with my parents, will I allow him things necessary for his support, and will consider his sons as brothers. I will teach them my art without reward or agreement; and I will impart all my acquirement, instructions, and whatever I know, to my master’s children, as to my own; and likewise to all my pupils, who shall bind and tie themselves by a professional oath, but to none else.
With regard to healing the sick, I will devise and order for them the best diet, according to my judgment and means; and I will take care that they suffer no hurt or damage.
Nor shall any man’s entreaty prevail upon me to administer poison to anyone; neither will I counsel any man to do so. Moreover, I will get no sort of medicine to any pregnant woman, with a view to destroy the child.
Further, I will comport myself and use my knowledge in a godly manner.
Whatsoever house I may enter, my visit shall be for the convenience and advantage of the patient; and I will willingly refrain from doing any injury or wrong from falsehood, and (in an especial manner) from acts of an amorous nature, whatever may be the rank of those who it may be my duty to cure, whether mistress or servant, bond or free.
If I faithfully observe this oath, may I thrive and prosper in my fortune and profession, and live in the estimation of posterity; or on breach thereof, may the reverse be my fate!
Nearing the end of life stage? How near? 50? 60?
Who's doing the determining? What they if they get it wrong, as they so often do in other medical diagnoses?
"Over 30% of Euthanasia Cases in Belgian Region Did Not Give Consent: Study"
When the costs of their medical procedures will cause harm to their socialized medical system
Funny thing, though: my uber-lib in laws have my black sheep conservative husband as their Power of Atty., not the golden boy professor who touts the compassion of euthanasia for Canadians. I wonder why that is????
I guess they’d like to have an adult in charge.
Anyone who has watched the UK or, to a lesser extent, Canada can predict that when medicine becomes politics, most of politics will be about medicine because everyone wants to stay on this side of the dirt and spend as little as possible doing so.
There is no reason Whitehall politicians should be deciding who gets drugs and how many they get but the Commons is tied up nearly full-time with so-called budgeting which is nothing more than rationing.
Canada Ping!
I have read that elderly people will not go to a doctor in the Netherlands and Holland as the doctors might decide on their own that the patient has no quality of life left and kill them.
This is wrong and goes against every moral precept that the medical profession has upheld for centuries.
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