Montana is Trying to Force Doctors to Assist People In Medical Suicide!!!!
By Adoniah
@Adoniah (7512)
United States
May 2, 2009 7:42pm CST
The First District Court Judge Dorothy McCarter is saying that doctors in Montana cannot refuse to assist people who are terminally ill who wish to committ suicide. Even though this is diametric to the Hippocratic Oath. Her opinion is still pending before the Supreme Court.
The Christian Legal Service, and Christian Medical and legal proffesionals are working to get the District Court to reverse its decision, but have not had any success so far. The major concern here is that this is in violation of the doctors personal religious and ethical belief systems. If this passes, Montana may stand to lose many of its best physicians. Patients may not trust the ones who stay because they will know that they may have assisted in suicides against their will.
Link:http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageld=9677
What whould you do if this was happening in your state?
Do you think it could happen in your state?
Shalom~Adoniah
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@redyellowblackdog (10629)
• United States
3 May 09
This is a classic example of how judges can become removed from the essence of the law as they let their own egos and self importance cloud their judgement. One would hope this judge could be impeached for attempting the sanctioning of forced murder. If this is not a "High crime or misdemeanor", what is?
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@spalladino (17891)
• United States
3 May 09
I have always believed that the potential for abuse is too great in this area so I would definitely be against it. We have a very large population of elderly, retired people down here in Florida who I'm pretty sure would also be against it so it wouldn't stand much of a chance of being passed here.
@irishidid (8687)
• United States
3 May 09
There would certainly have to be some very strict guidelines that had to be followed. I can't say I'm totally against the idea if done under the right conditions.

@nannacroc (4049)
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3 May 09
Surely in h 'Land of the Free', a doctor would be able to uphold his or her oath and practice their own religion. Isn't it an abuse of their humsn rights to force them to do anything that is against their morals or religion? I'm sure if this was happening in China the good old US of A would be making the most noise about human rights issues.
I'm not particularly religious but a quote from the bible seems appropriate here, 'try taking the plank from your own eye before looking for the splinter in your brothers', that may not be the exact quote but it does the job.

@nannacroc (4049)
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3 May 09
It's the same here. Apparently our government are keeping copies of all the e-mails we send and receive, their excuse is that it will help stop terrorism, the real reason is to erode basic freedom.

@Mikaela_taz25 (1842)
• Philippines
3 May 09
Why on Earth are they allowing it to happen? couldn't they just wait for the Person to die instead of forcing out a Euthanasia on them?
. @seacaucus4 (68)
• United States
3 May 09
Jesus Christ allowed himself to die at the hands of others, even though (according to Christians, anyway) he could at any moment have prevented it if he thought that would be the right thing to do.
That implies to me that a person's own wishes are not irrelevant.
Does the Hippocratic Oath only extend to the person's physical body? Is it just keeping the body alive--is that all "health" means? Or does it not also mean getting a deeper, more basic understanding of the person's meaning in the world and to him/herself?
Christians who claim they are all about the "spirit" rather than the "body" seem to focus an awful lot on the body, from where I'm standing. They talk about embryos and DNA rather than the mind and personality, and they focus on keeping humans alive on respirators even when the brain has ceased functioning.
Pharmacists should not go into that line of work if they are incapable of prescribing birth control. That would be like me saying I choose to go into house painting as a career, but for personal or religious reasons I refuse to paint any wall red or any color that contains red (orange, pink, purple, etc.). After all, "red" is the color of the devil. If I cannot paint red, I should just choose a different line of work altogether, where my personal beliefs won't interfere with the job that others--who have different beliefs--are paying me to do.
Same with pharmacists, and same with doctors.




