Inter-racial marriages were outlawed for many years due to religious reasoning.
That was 50 years ago and the odious rationales were exclusively religious.
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If my wife were to be raped, some are seeking to make sure she could not obtain Plan B.
Complex arguement but you are aware that majority of pro-lifers accept abortion in the case of rape, incest, etc...
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If I was in a coma, I’d be kept that way, even if I had no hope of recovery
With the parties that worship death, you could someday be in a condition that is not life ending and they will want to end it because your life is not ‘worth living’. I can’t find the link, but there was a woman who wrote in opinion journal about a hospital staff who offered to end feeding her comatose father, who went on to recover. I have had a similar experience.
This is not theoretical....
According to a Council of Europe report on Euthanasia in 2003
“A number of quantitative studies of the rate and major characteristics of these practices have been conducted in 1990, 1995 and 2001. These have demonstrated a disturbingly high incidence of euthanasia being carried out without the patient’s explicit request and an equally disturbing failure by medical professionals to report euthanasia cases to the proper regulatory authority.”(Emphasis added)
As originally contemplated, doctor assisted suicide was supposed to be a rare event to ease the unrelenting pain and suffering of a person who was not going to get better.
What its become is a way to knock off granny before she becomes a financial burden on the family or to allow the kids to get their hands on granny’s estate before illness eats up the inheritance.
You are a medic, do you really want to live in a society where the first medical impulse is to pull the plug?