Nevada Bill to Push Patients Off Wanted Life Support
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“Nevada has a bill pending in the legislature that would permit doctors to push patients off wanted life-extending treatment. From SP 189…” - National Review
As iron sharpens iron,
one person sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17)
“Nevada has a bill pending in the legislature that would permit doctors to push patients off wanted life-extending treatment. From SP 189…” - National Review
“Mount Carmel Health System says one of its intensive-care doctors gave “significantly excessive and potentially fatal” doses of pain medication to at least 27 near-death patients between 2015 and 2018.” - N.Review
“A Canadian man, Roger Foley, with a degenerative brain condition is suing a hospital, two healthcare agencies, and both the Ontario and Canadian governments for denying his right to ‘assisted life’” Foley claims health officials have ‘refused his request to live at home and be in charge of directing his own care.’ Instead, he’s been offered euthanasia” - AiG
“Three minors have been euthanised in Belgium since euthanasia for children was legalised in 2014. According to the latest report from the government agency which tracks euthanasia deaths, the children were 9, 11 and 17 years old. Two died in 2016 and 1 last year.” - Intellectual Takeout
“Judge Daniel Ottolia, of Riverside County Superior Court, ruled against California’s End of Life Option Act on Tuesday, which allowed physicians to prescribe life-ending drugs to terminally ill patients. The suit was brought by the Life Legal Defense Foundation, a Christian legal organization that opposes abortion and assisted suicide.” Jurist
“A Canadian medical society has been increasingly discussing assisted suicide as an option for parents with terminally ill children, according to a recent survey.” OneNewsNow
“Amid increasing attempts to legalize euthanasia at the state level, the nation’s second-largest network of physicians officially spoke out against it last week.” BPNews
“Taking advantage of the country’s new law, Canadian transplant surgeons have harvested organs from dozens of euthanasia patients. According to the National Post, 26 people in Ontario who died by lethal injection have donated tissue or organs.”
“We didn’t really start thinking of brain death as death until doctors at Harvard discovered that if we were to define it that way we’d be able to harvest organs for transplantation.” CT
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