153 posted on
09/11/2005 4:18:36 PM PDT by
Coleus
(Roe v. Wade and Endangered Species Act both passed in 1973, Murder Babies/save trees, birds, algae)
I would like to hear from a Christian pro-life medical ethicist on this. I know that this has been accepted practice on battlefields for a long time. This is not necessarily euthanasia in the classic sense of the word, these doctors lacked the ability rather than the desire to save these people; and unlike with terminal patients, these patients were likely to either die of something that would ordinarily be preventable or die violently.
All I know is that I would never want to be in a position to have to make a decision like this. But in the end, a lot of the fault lies with the incompetent mayor and governor and possibly hospital officials -- most of these patients SHOULD have been evacuated on Friday when it was obvious that the storm was coming, at that point there was ample time to save these people.