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Connecticut Assisted Suicide Bill Would Allow Doctors to Kill Mentally Disabled Patients
LifeNews ^ | 3/19/19 | Lisa Blumberg

Posted on 03/22/2019 4:47:40 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal

Let’s not be confused by double speak. The bill (HB 5898) that the Connecticut legislature is poised to consider has nothing to do with “aid in dying.” Aid in dying is palliative care to improve the quality of a person’s remaining life. The World Health Organization views such care as a human right. The bill would not expand desperately needed access to palliative care or expand patient autonomy – patients already have the right to refuse any type of treatment. Instead, the bill concerns the authority of doctors. It sets forth the circumstances under which a doctor could actively prescribe lethal drugs to directly cause the death of a supposedly willing patient without fear of liability.

If the selective writing of lethal prescriptions was a valid medical practice, as proponents assert that is, there would be no reason for laws to immunize medical professionals from suffering any consequences from doing so. What is being proposed in HB 5898 would amount to a radical change in medical culture. Causing death could be viewed as an option in the “care” of some patients.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Connecticut
KEYWORDS: assistedsuicide; disabled; murder
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Did they get that idea from Nazi Germany?


21 posted on 03/22/2019 5:42:42 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: sparklite2
It passes me by why we have to use such Rube Goldbergian processes.

I've heard that it is love of the last minute appeal. Nitrogen asphyxiation, barbiturate overdose and a dozen other methods of execution all have a interim period of a few minutes in which the prisoner either cannot be revived or would be brain damaged if he was. Thus a lot of work goes into some drug method that is nearly instant like the guillotine, rifle shot or a proper hanging.

22 posted on 03/22/2019 5:54:59 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Leave the job, leave the clearance. It should be the same rule for the Swamp as for everyone else.)
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To: KarlInOhio

Thus a lot of work goes into some drug method that is nearly instant like the guillotine, rifle shot or a proper hanging.

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So, why not guillotine, rifle shot or proper hanging? None of those are either cruel or unusual. The worse that can be said is that they can be messy.


23 posted on 03/22/2019 5:57:54 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: KarlInOhio

As to how quickly it works ...

By contrast, suddenly breathing pure inert gas causes oxygen levels in the blood to fall precipitously, and may lead to unconsciousness in only a few breaths, with no symptoms at all.


24 posted on 03/22/2019 5:59:40 PM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

And who gets to define and diagnose mental disability? Why, the doctors of course!


25 posted on 03/22/2019 6:08:39 PM PDT by Buttons12
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Goodness, that’s over half the population.


26 posted on 03/22/2019 6:12:15 PM PDT by redfreedom
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Hust like Hitler took care of them. Welcome to the Nazi Democrat P(arty. Their going to kill the xis million Jews of Israel and the mental defectives — not including themselves.


27 posted on 03/22/2019 6:29:15 PM PDT by Stepan12 (potusm)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

The first people the Nazis (the real Nazis) exterminated were the “mentally ill”. The term “mentally ill” has no clear definition and is simply the arbitrary decision by psychiatrists; who happen to be the craziest people of all themselves.


28 posted on 03/22/2019 6:38:16 PM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Well as long as the “mentally disabled” gave informed consent, I guess it would be ethical. /s/


29 posted on 03/22/2019 7:17:54 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Start using cash and checks or the elite class and bankers will make "cashless" the norm.)
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To: EagleUSA
Killing people seems to be popular with the Libs.....

As long as they aren't murderers.
Then suddenly we have to be humane.

30 posted on 03/22/2019 8:32:56 PM PDT by Vinnie
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To: EagleUSA

Democrats - The Party of Death and Taxes.


31 posted on 03/23/2019 3:38:20 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

It won’t just be the elderly.


32 posted on 03/23/2019 3:39:22 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Then the same drugs can be used on Death Row inmates, as they are approved for human use.


33 posted on 03/23/2019 7:54:17 AM PDT by GailA (PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP, GET OVER IT SNOWFLAKES.)
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