[Balata]

Oregon law mandates that healthcare providers give food and water to all conscious patients, who can receive it naturally such as by spoon feeding. SB 494, which is currently in the Senate Judiciary Committee, would remove this mandate for patients suffering from dementia and other mental illnesses.

An argument can be made liberalism is a mental illness.

[TigersEye]

Oregon law mandates that healthcare providers give food and water to all conscious patients, who can receive it naturally such as by spoon feeding.

SB 494, which is currently in the Senate Judiciary Committee, would remove this mandate for patients suffering from dementia and other mental illnesses.

Because they are unable to complain about it or understand what is being done to them. I can think of no other rationale for denying food and water to someone who is willing to take food and water.