An Ol' Broad's Ramblings
Hippocratic? Or Just Hypocrite!
Three important lines from the oath doctors use to hold sacred:
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.
Evidently, these important lines no longer apply to physicians.
Doctors face orders to ‘kill on demand’
Physicians in Montana could be facing “kill-on-demand” orders from patients who want to commit suicide if a district court judge’s opinion pending before the state Supreme Court is affirmed.
I guess the actual LAW no longer applies to courts and judges either.
The concern is over the attack on doctors’ ethics and religious beliefs – as well as the Hippocratic oath – that may be violated by a demand that they prescribe deadly chemicals or in some other way assist in a person’s death.
No one, and that includes physicians and pharmacists, should EVER be forced to violate their principles. EVER!
Montana’s situation, created late last year in a decision from First District Court Judge Dorothy McCarter in the Baxter et al. v. Montana case, is different. There is no provision for a doctor to refuse such “treatment” for a patient.
I would think that common sense would dictate the circumstances, but evidently, I’m wrong. Common sense was euthanized too.
In that case, 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. They were aided in the case by the assisted suicide advocacy group Compassion & Choices, formerly known as the Hemlock Society.
Baxter told the organization’s magazine that society already provides death when animals are suffering.
“I just feel if we can do it for animals,” Baxter said, “we can do it for human beings.”
I’m sorry….did this guy equate my sick cat with me? Uh….. I’m speechless. As much as we consider our four legged “children’ part of the family, I still know I am on top of the ‘food chain’, and they are cats!
“The trial court’s decision to create a constitutional right to ‘obtain assistance from a medical care provider in the form of obtaining a prescription for lethal drugs’ threatens the rights of healthcare professionals and institutions that hold sincere ethical, moral, and religious objections to participating in the intentional killing of their patients,” Mattox said.
“Medical professionals should not be coerced to violate the Hippocratic Oath in order to practice in Montana,” he said.
I would expect this kind of insanity from a state like Oregon, Washington, or California….but Montana?
If a “right to die” is to be recognized, it should be developed from the people through the legislative process, not imposed by a single judge, the brief also argues.
Oh sure. Everyone has a “right to die”. What they do NOT have is a right to force someone else to do it for them, against their moral, and ethical, values.
“I don’t know where it’s coming from, but there is certainly a push from government to tell people to set aside religious or ethical qualms and to abide by whatever the government tells you is appropriate,” he said. (Mattox)
I know where it’s coming from, and the left is the tool by which he is has planted the seeds. And I’m not talking about B. Hussein!
“A mentally competent, terminally ill Montanan should have the right to choose a peaceful death, when confronted by death,” Kathryn Tucker, Compassion & Choices director of legal affairs, told KTVQ-TV, Billings.
The idea that there is even such an organization speaks to the shift this country has taken over the last 40 years. As a reasonably “mentally competent” adult, I have the choice to refuse treatment in a terminal situation, which I have already chosen to do, by way of a living will. My entire family is aware of my decision, so why should a court, local, state, or national, be given the right to decide? This decision is between myself, my doctor, and my God.
Johnston told the television station, “The laws governing the medical profession say the medical profession is to heal, not to kill.”
So why are there so many ‘doctors’ willing to murder babies?
