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Assisted suicide ruled ‘a patient’s right’

‘We put animals out of their misery; we can do it for human beings’ [People are now no better than dogs, if they can’t find anyone to support them, kill them!]

A state district court judge ruled yesterday that patients have a right to doctor-assisted suicide.

Montana’s First District Court Judge Dorothy McCarter, the Associated Press reports, declared in the case of Baxter et al. v. Montana that mentally competent, terminally ill Montanans may self-administer life-ending medication and that doctors who prescribe such medications need not fear criminal prosecution.

Robert Baxter, 75, a retired truck driver from Billings who suffers from lymphocytic leukemia, filed the lawsuit along with four physicians in the state’s district court system on Nov. 1, 2007. They were aided in the case by the assisted suicide advocacy group Compassion & Choices, formerly known as the Hemlock Society.

“It’s always been a very important thing with me,” says Baxter in Compassion & Choices Magazine. “I’ve just watched people suffer so badly when they died, and it goes on every day. You can just see it in their eyes: ‘Why am I having to go through this terrible part of my life, when we do it for animals? We put them out of their misery.’

“I just feel if we can do it for animals,” Baxter said, ”we can do it for human beings.



Montana Assistant Attorney General Anthony Johnston disagrees.

Johnston told the television station, “The laws governing the medical profession say the medical profession is to heal, not to kill.”

Attorney Mark Connell, who filed the suit on Baxter’s behalf, told the Bozeman Daily Chronicle, “The question in our minds is whether the Montana State Constitution’s explicit guarantees of privacy and human dignity give the patient the choice to decide how his life is going to end.”

Indeed, the Montana Constitution does have clauses regarding privacy and dignity, including the statement in Article II, Section 4: “The dignity of the human being is inviolable.”

Compassion & Choices argues that those constitutional guarantees imply a right of patients to decide with their doctors how to achieve a peaceful death.

This is State Sanctioned Murder and it causes physicians or allied health care professionals to violate the Hippocratic Oath:

I will prescribe regimens for the good of my patients according to my ability and my judgment and never do harm to anyone.

I will not give a lethal drug to anyone if I am asked, nor will I advise such a plan; and similarly I will not give a woman a pessary to cause an abortion.

But I will preserve the purity of my life and my arts.

As usual, liberals engage in deliberate obfuscation in order to appeal to the emotions of other human beings, they set up a false premise to gain their ends, being the advancement of our modern culture of death. They talk here about patient’s dying in pain and that is a false issue. There is a world of difference between pain amelioration, even to dosage levels that might result in death and engaging in a conspiracy with the patient and their family to assist them in self murder (suicide), which also makes the physician and family members accessories before, during and after the fact to cold-blooded homicide.

Those people responsible for the prolongation and improvement in the quality of life (physicians and/or allied health care personnel) should never, IMO, face the conflict involved with also being involved in the murder-suicide of another human being. Abortion, assisted suicide and active euthansia are deliberate acts of murder absent a death warrant for a criminal offense. (Passive euthanasia is quite different as the goal is never to terminate life, but to allow natural or Divine forces to determine the outcome.

But, we live in a culture of death, we love death, we worship and embrace death; while we in a pretense of embracing life indulge in every measure possible to preserve our fading youth, and as we reject the sweet wine of maturity and a long, enjoyable look at the world during our sunset years.

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