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California: Assisted suicide/euthanasia now the law

Bill is signed by the Catholic in-name-only Gov. Jerry Brown. More pressure on other states - like NY - to keep up with trendsetting California.

This is inevitable -as the Nazis said "useless eaters". from the last paragraph excerpted - This will help "stabilize the General Fund’s costs for Medi-Cal".

Ironically, the bill was passed during a special session of the California State Legislature, which was originally called to address cost savings for the state’s MediCal program. Indeed, there are many who would see doctor-prescribed suicide as a “cost-savings” measure.

Excerpts below - hit the link for the full tragedy.

In his signing message, Brown said he signed the bill because he wouldn’t want to be in pain in his final days — regardless of the fact that pain relief is readily available without killing patients.

The so-called ‘right-to-die’ movement promotes these laws as simply ‘another medical option’ at the end of life, but their real goal is euthanasia on demand for any reason.”

“There are no real safeguards. It is a well-established fact that nearly every terminally ill patient who desires death is suffering from treatable depression. In Oregon, fewer than 6% of patients have been referred for psychiatric evaluation before obtaining life-ending drugs. Rather than treat clinically depressed patients, the Oregon system, and the system that would be established by the California bill, indicates that you instead help the patients kill themselves,” Tobias noted.

Tim Rosales of Californians Against Assisted Suicide  also responded to the bill signing. He told LifeNews:

This is a dark day for California and for the Brown legacy. Governor Brown was clear in his statement that this was based on his personal background. As someone of wealth and access to the world’s best medical care and doctors the Governor’s background is very different than that of millions of Californians living in healthcare poverty without that same access – these are the people and families potentially hurt by giving doctors the power to prescribe lethal overdoses to patients. At this time the coalition of organizations opposing assisted suicide is reviewing at all of its options moving forward.

Ironically, the bill was passed during a special session of the California State Legislature, which was originally called to address cost savings for the state’s MediCal program. Indeed, there are many who would see doctor-prescribed suicide as a “cost-savings” measure. Writing about the bill’s passage in The New York Times, Ian Lovett included an observation by Dr. Aaron Kheriaty, director of the medical ethics program at the University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine:

…[Kheriaty] said that low-income and underinsured patients would inevitably feel pressure to end their own lives in some cases, when the cost of continued treatment would be astronomical compared with the cost of a few lethal pills.

Here's more -

Supporters of physician-assisted suicide, which were not successful in passing legislation during the regular session, exploited the special Medi-Cal session to advance their agenda behind closed doors. Legislation allowing doctors to prescribe lethal drugs is highly controversial and opposed by disability rights groups, hospitals, physicians’ groups, as well as by Life Legal Defense Foundation.

“We expect our state legislators to uphold the State Constitution and not bend the law to further their own ends,” said Life Legal Executive Director Alexandra Snyder, “Californians have a right to an open, deliberative, and transparent legislative process when it comes to law and policy changes that are literally a matter of life and death.”

Snyder said that, while the California Constitution permits the Governor to issue proclamations to convene extraordinary legislative sessions, the Legislature is prohibited from enacting bills that are not the specific subject of the proclamation. In this case, Governor Brown’s proclamation expressly states that the purpose of the extraordinary session on Medi-Cal is to “stabilize the General Fund’s costs for Medi-Cal” and to “provide rate increases for providers of Medi-Cal and developmental disability services.”

 

Maafa 21; new documentary on eugenics and abortion

Life Dynamics production -

With a mountain of documentation, Maafa 21, is proving to audiences all across America that the real motivation behind the legalization of abortion was eugenics and racial genocide. In just over two hours, the documentary shows that the legalization of abortion was part of a campaign that had been created, promoted, and financed by a small cartel of ultra-wealthy elitists.

The reality is that Maafa 21 is a primer on power, corruption and betrayal.  Ironically, within days after the first edition of Maafa 21 was released, U.S Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was being interviewed by a reporter for The New York Times and made the following statement when asked about Roe vs. Wade – the decision that legalized abortion: “Frankly, I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of.”
 

More information from the NYT magazine feature article on abortion providers

Highlighted by Ken Blackwell. Warren Buffett, "The Sage of Omaha", was for many years the richest American. He's now in second place to Bill Gates (who is also pro-abortion).

While we were aware of Buffett's positions, they are nicely summed up below. The entire Blackwell article (which is not very long) is worth reading - we are excerpting the Buffett material:

The New York Times, Billionaire Buffett and the Weeping Abortionist

Did you know that Warren Buffett has given $3 billion—yes, three billion dollars—to promote abortion here in the U.S. and around the world? Often, government officials in developing countries are under pressure to control population in order to qualify for international aid. So they pressure women in the villages to get abortions. Western Europe is especially strong in pushing for abortion in these developing countries.

The Times article quotes Buffett’s late wife telling interviewer Charlie Rose “Warren feels that women all over the world get shortchanged. That’s why he’s so pro-choice.” The article tells us after Susan Thompson Buffett moved from Omaha, Nebraska, to San Francisco in 1977, she and Warren remained close. She even introduced Warren to the woman he has lived with since 1978. This threesome would send out Christmas cards together, the Times informs us.

Warren Buffett strongly backed Barack Obama. On January 23, 2009, President Obama’s first official act was to open the sluice gates of taxpayer support for abortion worldwide. The U.S. has now joined those exerting pressure on women in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. We may be going broke, but Planned Parenthood is still making a killing.

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Is it, therefore, any surprise to learn that Warren Buffett has joined the club of billionaires who pressure black and brown women around the world to kill their unborn children? Planned Parenthood is the favorite charity of many billionaires.

The last line, sad but true.

Big Article on the New Abortion Providers

The New Abortion Providers - NYTimes.com

 

This is an article that at its core attempts to co-opt women in the medical profession by promoting them as potential saviors in the (decreasingly popular) new abortion industry. Lifenews.com has a good evaluation of the article -  Click here: Pro-Life Movement Successful in Persuading Future Doctors to Not Do Abortions

 

This long article is NY Times-reader friendly, as are most of the comments, but read it anyway. It is difficult. It is now all about "terminations" and a better business model. The push for and expanded corruption of the medical profession is fully on parade. The rationalizations are numerous, but the realities of abortion cannot be denied, and this article talks about them only by alluding to their most repulsive aspects. The most powerful and most disturbingly tragic paragraph involves a pregnant doctor performing an abortion. 

 

Let's pray for us all, and especially for those that participate in this immoral, barbaric practice and seek to call it "health care". We ache for the many post-abortive women and for this article's subtle attempt to make "abortionist" a greater women-friendly medical career choice.

 

A note. Abortion is referred to unequivocally as a surgical procedure. How many young women and underage girls go for one without understanding this is surgery, and without parental knowledge or consent?

 

There is a reason most doctors are embarrassed to say they are abortionists. Attempts to blame it on anything but what abortion is ring hollow, especially in this piece and despite the typical fear-mongering appearance in it of clinic protesters (whose presence discourages a man from retrieving his lunch from his car), and murderers/bombers (paragraph #1 transitions from a talked about "exposure and humiliation" pro-life tactic to abortion-provider murders). And of course, the inclusion of Catholics who here are para-participants - bending their consciences into pretzels to avoid the obvious conflict of working in the medical practice of an abortionist. The doctor's handling and billing of abortion patients himself, rather than involving his unwilling office assistants, is praised by them. It is, however, difficult for LifeNet to be objective at the author's focus on sensitivity to an office assistant's conscience, while mitigating the impending doom of the unborn child next door.

 

Pro-life work is indeed difficult. Pray and then pray some more.

 

Assisted suicide movement is about euthanasia, not compassion.

Here is an excellent and comprehensive article (not too long) by attorney Wesley Smith. Right to Die Movement is Really About Euthanasia, Not Compassion

Remember, local, state, and federal officials are generally ignorant on this issue and frequently accept the premise that assisted suicide advocates are merely advocating the compassionate thing to end suffereing, etc, etc. They need to be spoon fed the kind of information in this article!

An excerpt:

THERE IS A PRETENSE in contemporary assisted suicide advocacy that goes something like this: "Aid in dying" (as it is euphemistically called) is merely to be a safety valve, a last resort only available to imminently dying patients for whom nothing else can be done to alleviate suffering.

Meanwhile, in the real world, the founder of the Swiss suicide facilitating organization Dignitas is just about done with pretense. The Sunday Times Magazine (London) reported that Dignitas' founder, Ludwig Minelli, plans to create sort of a Starbucks for suicide: a chain of death centers "to end the lives of people with illnesses and mental conditions such as chronic depression."