Horrible. Guilty of murder should mean execution.
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Posted on 07/13/2018 1:20:57 PM PDT by Morgana
Multiple news outlets are reporting that Robert Latimer has submitted a letter to the Minister of Justice seeking a pardon or a new trial following his conviction for the murder of his daughter Tracy in 1993.
Latimer has been free on parole since 2010. Contrary to some media reports, Latimer has been able to travel outside Canada since 2015, according to the Globe and Mail.
Disability rights activists are concerned that the pardon request is a “symptom and effect of the continuing devaluation of disabled people” as shown by the legalization of assisted suicide and euthanasia in 2016, according to Amy Hasbrouck, director of Toujours Vivant-Not Dead Yet. She notes that individual choice is supposed to be key to the suspension of homicide laws in cases of assisted suicide and euthanasia. “Yet Tracy was not given a choice.”
Hasbrouck says public policies that favour institutional care over home-based supports, and failure to fund such supports, as well as palliative care, deprive disabled people of any real choice in where and how they live. “Under those circumstances, how can the choice to die be truly ‘free’?” she said.
Though Hasbrouck agrees that Tracy Latimer should have received effective pain relief, she finds the statement that ‘Tracy Latimer’s life should have ended ‘unintentionally’ as a secondary consequence of her physicians’ administration of opiates to alleviate her pain,” to be “ignorant, insulting, and offensive.”
Hasbrouck also points to a claim made by Latimer’s attorney Jason Gratl that “[g]ranting a pardon to Mr. Latimer does not detract from any value or principle.”
“Pardoning Tracy’s killer would signal a failure of the Government’s commitment to equality, justice, and ending discrimination against disabled Canadians,” said Hasbrouck.
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She noted that the Latimer conviction was “the exception to the rule” that parents who kill their disabled children receive more lenient treatment from the criminal justice system than do parents who kill their non-disabled children.
Toujours Vivant-Not Dead Yet (TVNDY) is a nonreligious and nonpartisan organization established in 2013 by and for people with disabilities as a project of the Council of Canadians with Disabilities. Our goal is to inform, unify and give voice to the disability rights opposition to assisted suicide, euthanasia, and other life-ending practices that have a disproportionate impact on people with disabilities.
He was a farmer in Alberta I believe so it's not like this being on his record should be a job hardship?
(Unquestionable efficient cost-cutting measure, not that it's right.)
Oops, I realize this was Canada, not UK.
Read the article.
She had multiple surgeries in her short life.
It is difficult to not feel compassion for her parents.
As people of intended good will begin to look at issues like this, petty distractions will come and pull them aside.
Healthcare there.....
“If we think health care costs a lot here, wait until it is all free.”
There were numerous studies at the time. I found it all to be very intriguing.
Her parents were good people. Regular church goers. In fact the father did it while the rest of the family was at church.
I did, and I corrected my error: Canada, not UK.
I was blessed with four healthy children. I'm not going to even pretend to understand the challenges this family faced and as such, I'll refrain from passing judgment over what he did.
When I lived in Wa state and worked at a small rural hospital, Canadians came down to get healthcare in the US and paid cash.
Horrible. Guilty of murder should mean execution.
Read the whole article.
Give him a nre trial and put the death penalty on the table.
Please make your point. I read the whole article at the outset. If I have made an error (it happens!), I would be glad to have you point it out so I can correct it, but I don’t know what you’re getting at.
I hate the term “Euthanized”.
It’s that lefty feel good word that replaces killing and murder. Done similar to the word “Gay” replacing homosexual.
It’s best this guy waits to see what happens on judgement day. I really doubt it if he’ll get that pardon. My he eternally fry in Hell.
I don’t know the facts of this case but I do have some firm ideas on what I want when the time comes when the pain is no longer tolerable and the medicine for it no longer works.
This is not a theory but is personal and a reality I will one day face(barring the unforeseen)
I have a condition(I will not say in a open forum) that I have been saddled with since my teens. It is progressive(a term I’ve happy to associate with liberals) and it has robbed me of the ability of free movement and the movement I retain can be very painful. The complications from it have required multiple surgeries and I will never regain the physical abilities I had in my youth. I can still do the work I need to do, however it wears me down, consuming more energy to get less work done.
That said, I have contemplated the “last measure” I would go to when the “quality of life” no longer exceeds the pain and disability I endure. My family knows this although they don’t know the final act in which I will end my life.(it is still many years away.)They don’t like it but they know, if I am still able, will do it and nothing short of confinement will stop me.
It is my decision, not family members, and certainly not the states’s.
However I am still conflicted with the “Assisted Suicide” programs other nations have enacted. It scares the sh%t outta me even though it is meant to “help’ a person like me. Like many government programs I can easily see this wandering away from it’s original purpose and the”choice” of the person whom it was suppose to help, evolves to it being the state’s decision on whether I’m a “useless eater”
I also see the person “choosing’ this option , not of free will by coercion by supposed “loved ones”( a fact I do not face because I am truly blessed by loving family members)
I don’t know whether to sympathie with this father or condemn him. But it should be done by a case by case situation and NOT make “Assisted Suicide” a government program.
Life is precious, so precious it shouldn’t be thrown away lightly.
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, the second and third presidents of the United States, respectively, died on July 4, 1826, the 50th anniversary, to the day, of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence.
I say, the deeply spiritual human mind understands “a time to die” and will make it so without any other human expediting that time. Those who think they can "help" that time must be sent to prison for a long time and will be damned to H3II for an eternity.
But that's just my two cents.
His daughter was a burden to him, which justifies aborting her “post-partum”, even if late in life.
Next: “post-partum” termination of the burdensome elderly. (I’m sure that already happens).
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