Posted on 04/05/2011 7:34:00 AM PDT by wagglebee
April 4, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Canadian Paediatric Society - bioethics committee, released a statement on April 1 concerning the withholding and withdrawing of artificial nutrition and hydration.
The statement is similar to the statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics. Both statements approve the withholding or withdrawing of nutrition and hydration (fluids and food) from infants who may not be dying.
The Canadian statement allows euthanasia by dehydration (slow euthanasia) of infants with cognitive or other disabilities based on a “quality of life” assessment and with consent.
I refer to this as euthanasia by dehydration because there is a clear difference between withholding or withdrawing fluids and food from a person who is actually dying and nearing death and a person who is not otherwise dying.
When a person is actually dying and nearing death, the death occurs from the medical condition. But when fluids and food are intentionally withheld or withdrawn from someone who has cognitive or other serious disabilities or conditions but is not otherwise dying, the cause of death is intentional dehydration.
Many leading bioethicists would like you to believe that there is no difference between killing and letting die, but in fact there is a big difference. When we allow the killing of a person, we are allowing an intentional action or omission to directly cause death. Letting someone die means that we are actually allowing natural death to occur.
Some bioethicists will refer to the “artificial” nature of providing fluids and food as the issue. This argument is false. We always receive fluids and food by some means, whether it be by a spoon, straw, bottle or mother’s milk, etc.
In a media release, the Canadian Paediatric Society stated:
ANH [artificial nutrition and hydration] refers to nutrition or hydration that is delivered by artificial means, such as via a feeding tube or intravenously. Legal and ethics experts say there is no difference between withholding or withdrawing ANH versus other therapies that sustain or prolong life. The CPS makes clear that any decision should be based solely on the benefit to the child, while considering the child’s overall plan of care.
“Food and drink evoke deep emotional and psychological responses, and are associated with nurturing,” said Dr. Tsai. “But artificial nutrition and hydration is not about providing food and fluids through normal means of eating and drinking. It should be viewed the same as any other medical intervention, such as ventilatory support.”
Sadly, there was another time in history when euthanasia by dehydration of newborns was accepted. Those deaths became the T4 euthanasia program that progressed to euthanasia by injection and then euthanasia by gassing.
No, not everyone is willing to turn a blind eye to intentionally dehydrating infants to death. These infants are vulnerable people because they have been born with disabilities. Many medical professionals view their lives as “life unworthy of life” and their parents are afraid and have been told that these children will live lives that are “wretched to the extreme.”
Hearts breaking is not the answer.
If we do not fight the New Nazi Doctors, we are ripe for a repeat of the 30’40’s Nazi Germany, IN AMERICA.
I guess it is not fully human until it’s old enough to vote - Socialist.
Do any of these jackasses know how painful dying of thirst is? I suggest they try it on one of their sick relatives or maybe themselves just to see! Anyone who suggests such a death deserves to burn in hell FOREVER!
Thanks for the translation....
Of note....use of the term “comrade”....
I stumbled upon the fact quite some time ago...
The Nazi’s and the Communists were fighting over the same demographic...
The nazi’s won...
Remember the clap trap about Hitler being put into power by the “rich”?
The general membership of the Nazi Party,(1932) known as the Parteimitglieder, mainly consisted of the urban and rural lower middle classes. 7% belonged to the upper class, another 7% were peasants, 35% were industrial workers and 51% were what can be described as middle class.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Party
THAT is what “democracy” looks like....
Thank god we live in a republic....
BTW...also of note....the stunning simularity between the demographics the german national socialists, and that of the modern democrat party...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)
Especially when one considers the fact that the SA “brownshirts” were born in the german GAY beer halls...
The homosexuality of Röhm and other SA leaders was made public to add “shock value” even though the sexuality of Röhm and other named SA leaders had actually been known by Hitler and other Nazi leaders for years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmabteilung
I can barely read articles like this. My twin girls almost died when they were 6 weeks old. One of them has a bad brain injury from the illness.
The thing is the injury looks like she would be terribly disabled. In reality, at 14 she gets A’s and B’s at a top private school. She is very strong in math. She does have speech and some memory and coordination problems. However, she manages just fine. She looks normal. She will go to college. She’s also very, very, very sweet. She has huge faith in God, and that He has a plan for her.
God made all of these people, and they have to be treated with respect and dignity.
My apologies, I thought Greeks, and typed Romans for some odd reason. I knew it was “Spartans” from the movie “300” (This is SPARTA!!!!!).
Either way - this is unfortunately old practice. The devaluing of human life is a signpost to the end of a society. So is increased sexual immorality.
I agree. We must fight. It still breaks my heart that someone would even murder an otherwise healthy infant that was considered not “up to par” (by whose standards?) It’s going on in America right now with the elderly.
I worked with a woman whose father had had a stroke. He was in a nursing home on a feeding tube. Her mother decided she didn’t want to take care of him anymore and had food and water removed from him. He couldn’t walk, but was in other wise fairly good physical condition.
It took about two weeks before he succumbed. He would be screaming for someone to give him some water. And his pleading was ignored. No one did anything to stop what amounts to murder, including the woman I worked with.
I met the woman after all of this had happened, probably 8 years ago now. It affected her deeply. I couldn’t understand why she didn’t do anything to stop it. She said there was nothing she could do. Her mother had all the power. She often wondered what she was going to do when her mother was in the same position. When the time came, she could not be that cruel and allowed her mother to die a peaceful, natural death.
Political dissidents would make the list eventually;
you know that’s their goal.
Many of us were telling anyone that would listen in 73, that Abortion was going to led to a culture of death. We have reaped the whirlwind.
all those that would EXCUSE a pro-death candidate “because they were otherwise a “good guy/gal”, have blood on their hands as well.
The Death Cultist are working their will. Even to the extent of backing the Jihadist in their quest to kill as many non-believers as possible.
Every decent American has had War declared on them and they don’t know it or don’t care.
This is not going to end easily.
T4 in a new dress? Not quite.
Ezekiel J Emanuel is in the Obama Administration as Special Advisor for Health Policy to Peter Orszag, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezekiel_Emanuel
A very important and current article co-authored by Emanuel
http://www.ncpa.org/pdfs/PIIS0140673609601379.pdf
Forget T4 - obsolete. This is real, present and being implemented. More importantly, how do you stop it?
I wonder how he would like if we dehydrated him. These people are sick in the head.
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