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Constable, who teaches at New York University School of Medicine but who studied bioethics at the Ethox Centre at Oxford University, justifies her position using the philosophical premise of Peter Singer that “[whether or not] a being is human, and alive, does not in itself tell us whether it is wrong to take that being’s life.”

This attitude is beyond repulsive.

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[E. Pluribus Unum]

How can one tell the difference between PVS and any garden-variety Democrat?

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[hinckley buzzard]

I've noticed over the years that whenever a "bioethicist" is involved, 95% of the time the proposition is in favor of killing or letting die as opposed to Life.

Wonder why that is.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Almost a decade ago, in South Africa, a doctor discovered by accident that a common sleep aid, sold in the US as ‘Ambien’, is in many cases waking people up from “permanent vegetative states”.

http://www.helium.com/items/2272231-sleep-aids-may-revive-coma-patients

The theory of why this happens is based on why persistent comas happen. When part of the brain is damaged, the body released a chemical called GABA that “turns off” that part of the brain so it can be repaired. However, in some people, a big release of GABA *sensitizes* their entire brain to GABA, so that even the tiny, normal amount of GABA found in the blood normally, after production of GABA returns to normal, is enough to put the entire brain into a coma.

Ambien is a GABA blocker.

And remember that this has been known for a *decade* now, so if this “American bioethicist” is talking about killing people in persistent comas, she is either ignorant of this discovery, or, importantly, *indifferent* to it.

That is, in this latter case, that she *knows* that many of these people in “permanent vegetative states” could be *revived*, but she *wants* them to be killed, anyway.

I know this sounds truly horrifying, but such people are often so focused on how *they* define “quality of life”, that they are more than willing to sacrifice the lives of other people that they *feel* have an “unacceptable quality of life.”

[originalbuckeye]

If people like this woman are allowed to rule, I can see a time when anyone who no longer ‘contributes to society’ is expendable. After working all my life and looking forward to enjoying retirement, I would hate to be offed by these ‘ethicists’ who have decided I am no longer productive. Who teaches them their ‘ethics’? Appalling!

[Robwin]

Kill the "useless eaters". The Nazis did it, why not us?

The next group to be targeted will be the mentally and physically handicapped. After all, they will be happier dead, dontcha know?

We sink ever lower into the moral sewer.

[cva66snipe]

Remember when we had enough national morality that we knew right from wrong? The recently invented field called bioethicist is one of many symptoms of our nations increasing poverty and decline. Bioethicist sounds like a term derived from Hitler, Stalin, Saddam, Lenin, Amin, and their ilk to obtain their desired agenda with a cleansed name.

[TheOldLady]

Too many PVS patients wake up again. What's the lib line? "If one life is saved, we must [support global warming taxes, ban guns, eat no sugar or salt or fat, etc., etc.], no matter the cost!!"

So if one life is saved, we must allow PVS patients a chance to awaken, no matter the cost.

Out of their own mouths.

[TASMANIANRED]

Satan has deeply inspired this bunch.

[Salvation]

Lorod have mercy on us.

This sounds like it would happen even if the patient did not want it to happen and had that in writing.

[LadyDoc]

check out youtube: Bioethicist meets doctor...

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