Posted on 04/21/2015 9:02:49 AM PDT by wagglebee
April 20, 2015 (NationalReview.com) -- Medical martyrdom is coming, a term I coined to describe doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and other such professionals being forced (soon) to choose between their callings and participating in the intentional taking of human life.
That is already the law of Victoria, Australia, where doctors must perform abortions when asked or refer to a colleague they know will do the deed. Some doctors I met there moved across the country to escape the Draconian diktat.
Canada’s Supreme Court recently imposed euthanasia across the country, including for “psychological pain” caused by a diagnosable medical condition. The question now posed is whether doctors will be able to opt out.
So far, it doesn’t look good. The Canadian Medical Association–already weak-kneed on assisted suicide/euthanasia–wants doctors protected. But the Ontario and Saskatchewan Colleges of Doctors and Surgeons want doctors forced, as in Victoria, to do the deed, refer, or if no references are available, forced to kill.
Canadian bioethicist Udo Schuklenk agrees. From his blog:
The very idea that we ought to countenance conscientious objection in any profession is objectionable.
Nobody forces anyone to become a professional. It is a voluntary choice. A conscientious objector in medicine is not dissimilar to a taxi driver who joins a taxi company that runs a fleet of mostly combustion engine cars and who objects on grounds of conscience to drive those cars due to environmental concerns. Why did she become a taxi driver in the first place? Perhaps she should have opened a bicycle taxi company instead.
The very idea that Schuklenk compares driving a taxi to practicing a medical profession, and worries about pollution to the active and intentional taking of human life tells you so much about what has gone wrong in bioethics.
Moreover, when today’s doctors and nurses entered the profession, they weren’t required to kill.
So, this is where we are heading fast: Kill or get out of medicine! More, don’t get into medicine in the first place if you are an orthodox religious believer or philosophically opposed to abortion and euthanasia. You have no place in the medical arts.
It is worth nothing that Schuklenk supports Futile Care Theory. Thus, his anti-medical conscience attitude doesn’t extend to the ICU when patients want life-sustaining treatment the doctor thinks is “inappropriate.” Then, doctors should have a right to say no–even though the most fundamental job of doctors is to keep patients alive when that is what they want.
He also advocates infanticide in some cases.
Can we say, “culture of death?”
When Dutch doctors were ordered by the Nazi occupiers to practice (then) German-style death medicine, they took down their shingles en masse, and won the victory. Will Canadian physicians have similar guts in a society in which dissenters are not murdered?
Bioethics is nothing more than a fancy word for promoting death.
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Agreed. There’s nothing ethical involved.
I just finished reading an excellent book — although a novel — very vivid as a doctor in England faces a law suit for saving someone’s life.
Do No Harm by Fiorella De Maria
Some places in the book were absolutely page-turners — I was carrying it everywhere so I could read.
Abortion is a euphemism for prenatal infanticide.
It is a premeditated murder.
Frankly, I am inclining to the view that "ethics" is just "morals" for people that don't have any.
After all, lawyers have "ethics", but most are sadly lacking in morals, otherwise.
I will never participate in abortion or euthanasia. I am not opposed to providing patients a list of practitioners who will as long as they do not return to my practice
The big flaw in this analogy is that physicians and nurses don't typically enter the field of medicine in order to kill other human beings.
What we are going to get is a functional equivalent of Nazi Nuremberg laws where people of Jewish origin were prohibited to practice in the fields of medicine and education. It won’t be the same in every aspect (the modern nazis attack religion rather than race) but the time is not far when a de-facto exclusion of Catholics or those with similar pro-life beliefs from practicing medicine.
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Not just foreign countries, check out what they are trying to do in NY State, USA:
I received this Thursday, via email, from Rochester Right-to-Life:
“In a nutshell: Four bills have been introduced in the NYS Senate that make it easier for a doctor to “allow” a patient to die. Pro-lifers need to oppose these bills.
Who to contact: Your NY Senator in Albany, regardless of party.
When: Now. We would like for those bills to stay in committee.
What to say: Senator Hannon’s four bills regarding the denial of treatment will cost lives. Please tell Senator Hannon that you oppose those four bills. (If your senator is pro-life, tell him that a pro-life vote is NO for these bills.) Ask for a written response on your senator’s position.
What is the content of the four bills:
S 4796 makes it easier for a doctor to unilaterally impose a Do Not Resuscitate order
S 4794 makes it easier to starve and dehydrate a patient against his wishes
S 4795 allows a health care provider to override family direction for treatment
S 4791 weakens the requirement for parental notice before a minor child is denied treatment (snip)”
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