Thread by me.
In the Oscar winning movie “Million Dollar Baby,” the female boxer Maggie Fitzgerald ends up paralyzed from the neck down and asks her coach to end her life.
“I got what I needed. I got it all. Don’t let ‘em [the doctors] keep taking it away from me,” she begs.
When those words were uttered in 2004 the debate over assisted suicide was underway, but today the debate strongly rages on in the national spotlight.
Jerry Dincin, Lake County resident and president of the Final Exit Network, thinks this is an issue that people need to start thinking about.
“This is going to be the ultimate civil rights issue of the 21st century,” said Dincin. “People don’t like to talk about it, but they will have to soon.”
Bonnie Quirke, the vice-president of Lake County Right to Life, believes that the assisted suicide debate is no different than the abortion debate.
“They have just moved the geography of the debate from the womb to the ward,” said Quirke.
The 2005 case of Terri Schiavo brought this debate to the forefront of most American’s minds, but Quirke believes the issue really began in 1973, the year of the Roe decision.
“The whole problem started in ’73,” said Quirke. “When you take one class of people and segregate them from the human family, it becomes easier to segregate anyone from the human family.”
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Thread by NYer.
A MOTHER desperate to have a second child has told how she lost her last IVF embryo when the NHS implanted it into the wrong patient.
When the other woman found out that the embryo was not hers, she aborted it.
Details of the blunder raise fresh questions about the way IVF clinics are regulated.
The Sunday Times has previously revealed that women undergoing fertility treatment have had their eggs fertilised with the wrong sperm.
Deborah, the woman who lost her chance of another baby, is so traumatised by the error that she is reluctant to risk further IVF to have a longed-for sibling for her son, Jamie, 6.
Because Deborah is 40 her prospects of having another child with her boyfriend, Paul, 38, are slim and diminishing.
Deborah, who does not want to disclose her surname, said: “I will never forget the moment the hospital broke the news to us. Initially, the hospital told me there had been an accident in the lab and that the embryo had been damaged. I thought that someone had, perhaps, dropped the embryo dish.
“I remember thinking: ‘That’s our last hope gone – we will never have another child.’ I left the hospital feeling totally shell-shocked.
“When we went back to the hospital two days later and we were told the truth about my embryo being given to someone else I was so angry.”
Deborah, a healthcare worker, and Paul, who have been together for 17 years, went on the NHS waiting list for fertility treatment in 1996. After two failed attempts, Jamie was born on the third cycle in 2003. . .