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As the hard left struggles to reverse meanings of words like good meaning bad, bad meaning good, they concentate their bile on terms like right-to-die and death-with-dignity, the meanings being the opposite of the sounds. Salient in Oregon is this usage and the death enthusiasts celebrate a decade of state sponsored carnage at a rate yet insufficient to satiate their lust.

Meanwhile the painters of the left paint over the torment of their victims with happy faces the envy of Hitlerian artists. Thread from wagglebee.

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Ten years after Oregon adopted the nation's first bill legalizing physician-assisted suicide, no other state has passed a similar law, despite attempts by several legislatures or voter initiatives.

But both supporters and opponents of the Death With Dignity Act predicted efforts to pass such laws will continue, especially as more aging baby boomers deal with fatal diseases.

The Death With Dignity Act allows terminally ill people to obtain lethal doses of prescription drugs from their doctors to self-administer. The U.S. Supreme Court in 2006 upheld lower cour

Ten years later, Oregon's is only U.S. law allowing assisted suicide

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Mining chaos from clarity, these grand wizers of the left in Catholic cloaks show their hearts are with the death enthusiasts who saw to the murder of Terri.

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The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) recently issued a document entitled, "Responses to Certain Questions Concerning Artificial Nutrition and Hydration." The document was dated August 1, but was not released until mid-September. The full text, with commentary, was published in the September 27 issue of Origins.

The document was issued in response to two questions posed by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops regarding the administration of food and water to those in a vegetative state. The questions had been sent to the Vatican in July 2005 in the aftermath of the national controversy over continued life-support for Terri Schiavo.

Mrs. Schiavo had been in what doctors described as a "persistent vegetative state" for some 15 years. Her only legally recognized guardian, namely, her husband, had testified before the Florida courts that his wife's wishes were that she not be kept alive by the extraordinary means that had been employed on her behalf.

The issue became highly politicized when the President of the United States, the Republican leaders of the House and Senate, and the Governor of Florida became directly involved. The then-majority leader of the Senate, Bill Frist, a medical doctor himself, even presumed to diagnose Mrs. Schiavo's condition on the basis of a videotape.

After an autopsy was done on Mrs. Schiavo, confirming previous medical diagnoses, political figures either tried to explain away their earlier statements or simply fell silent. But there was some seriously negative fallout in last year's Congressional elections.

In response to the questions from the U.S. bishops, the CDF seems now to have come down --- belatedly --- on the side of those who had pressed for the continued administration of artificial nutrition and hydration for Mrs. Schiavo.

The word "seems" is deliberately chosen here because the Schiavo case is not specifically mentioned anywhere in the document or commentary. While it is understandable why the advocates of continued life-support would read these texts as a vindication of their views, it is technically not justified.

Artificial nutrition and hydration

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