Sam Golubchuk...
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Asked by The New York Times in 2005 what today-taken-for-granted idea or value he thinks may disappear in the next 35 years, Professor Peter Singer, the Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University's Center for Human Values, responded: “the traditional view of the sanctity of human life.” It will, he explained, “collapse under pressure from scientific, technological and demographic developments.”
This past January 30, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Manitoba, Canada issued a policy statement that may come to permit the professor to add “prophet” to his curriculum vitae.
In that document, the governing body of the Canadian province’s medical profession directs that doctors have the final say with regard to ending life-sustaining treatment of patients – regardless of the wishes or religious beliefs of the patients or their families. It also establishes a baseline for justifying life-sustaining treatment – including a patient’s ability to “experience his/her own existence” – below which a doctor is directed to end life-sustaining treatment, regardless of the wishes of the patient’s family. The new policy paper has garnered much attention, and may well have ramifications throughout Canada and, conceivably, elsewhere.
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More recently, doctors at Manitoba’s own Grace Memorial Hospital sought to disconnect Samuel Golubchuk from the ventilator that was helping him breathe, claiming that he was unconscious and unresponsive – presumably never to recover. Mr. Golubchuk’s children, Orthodox Jews whose religious convictions opposed terminating their father’s life, promptly sought and obtained a court injunction. The judge in that case recently announced that there were sufficient grounds to doubt the hospital’s analysis of the patient’s condition, and Mr. Golubchuk’s children report that he is now alert and making purposeful movements.
Neither those cases, nor scores of similar ones, seem to have given the Manitoba College of Physicians pause before arrogating to doctors the final say in matters of life and death. One thing is certain: In the wake of Manitoba medicine’s new rules, physicians in that province will in the future be spared such embarrassing outcomes. Dead patients tell no tales.....................
BRAZEN NEW WORLD
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Excerpted from WND
Considering that voter registration among younger people is sharply up this year, could it be that Barack Hussein Obama's rising popularity is one indicator of government education's brainwashing success? With voters younger than age 25 offering him the highest margin of victory, record numbers of young people helped push Obama 20,000 votes ahead of competitors in the Iowa Caucus. Increased leftist political activity on college campuses is powering an unprecedented surge of students to voter registration booths.
This year could be a turning point in America as young people, excited about a candidate supporting partial-birth abortion and the dehydration death of Terri Schiavo, come out in droves to support Obama for the highest public office in the world.
Or … this year could spark a revolution marking a more dynamic spiritual change as Christian parents take their country back by pulling their children out of the socialist indoctrination centers mistakenly called "public" schools..........
Christianity's death spiral
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