APOLOGISTS FOR DEATH

 Thirty years ago, civil libertarian expert Nat Hentoff called the bioethics community (which had been hijacked by the PC idea that killing was okay) apologists for death.

And he warned that a centralized health care law would lead to doctors and committees of these type of people deciding who should die, and if you should receive treatment at all, or, in the words of one doctor who was filling in at Pine Ridge and was asked to check the feeding tube of a Lakota lady with a stroke: Why don't you just give her morphine, ha ha.

Which is why most of my patients in the IHS system would not sign living wills or DNR orders, even though they sometimes turned down treatment.

So who dares to point the finger saying The Emperor has no clothes? 

Cue Dr. C, who is a PhD doctor but also a nurse with extensive experience in psychiatric nursing and public health teaching:

This is not about compassion you know. It is about money. It's cheaper to kill a disabled person than enabble them to live in dignity, and of course if a mom aborts her kid and then finds it lived, well, she would be upset so let's kill the kids.

John Paul II warned of this thirty years ago in his encyclical the Gospel of Life.

Back in the early 1990s, the NEJM and bioethicists were going full force in pushing killing of the terminally ill, citing the success of this in the Netherlands. I wrote at least half a dozen identical letters to the NEJM pointing out that very good reporting in the press and in a Hasting center article (a bioethics journal) showed that most cases were indirect, hidden, and not reported, and the actual numbers were much higher than the official letters. None of these letters were published, and when I wrote a letter asking why, I received a nice letter back from their editor saying that these articles were opinion pieces and did not have to be scientifically accurate.

Ironically, Pope John Paul II wrote an encyclical about this danger, but of course with Pope Francis, this growing problem has disappeared into a black hole, and the pro life movement in the US is still stuck in abortion in a way that ignores the big picture of the culture of death.`

Sigh.

Since then, the practice has been pushed in movies, TV, novels for young women, etc. as desireable.

sigh.