"When the sanctity of life is only contextualized by the value that you or your government get out of it, encouraged and coerced suicide is the natural conclusion of that slippery slope. Death is a convenient way for a government to get rid of its poor who depend on them for all kinds of support."
The so-called progressives' latest proposition to solving poverty is medically assisted suicide and abortion.
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Democrat Tom Daschle, original nominee to head the Health and Human Services Department, and says health-care reform “will not be pain free.” Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them.
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Democrat Governor Dick Lamm once created a firestorm in Colorado (a few years after leaving the Governor’s office) when he said: “
the elderly have a duty to die.”
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Democrats: A key administration figure committed to cost cutting is Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, a health policy advisor in the Office of Management and Budget and brother of Rahm Emanuel, the president's chief of staff wants doctors to look beyond the needs of their own patient and consider social justice. They should think about whether the money being spent on their patient could be better spent elsewhere.
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http://spectator.org/articles/41471/downgrading-american-medical-care
d. WSJ: At one point in the town hall, broadcast from the East Room by ABC news, a woman named Jane Sturm told the story of her 105-year-old mother, who, at 100, was told by an arrhythmia specialist that she was too old for a pacemaker. She ended up getting a second option, and the operation, for which Ms. Sturm credits her survival. "Look, the first thing for all of us to understand that is we actually have some -- some choices to make about how we want to deal with our own end-of-life care,"
[Democrat] Obama replied. After discussing ways "we as a culture and as a society [can start] to make better decisions within our own families and for ourselves," he continued that in general "at least we can let doctors know and your mom know that, you know what? Maybe this isn't going to help. Maybe you're better off not having the surgery, but taking the painkiller."
WSJ:
Obama's Health Future
Obama: Maybe You're "Better Off" Taking Painkillers And Forgoing Surgery | RealClearPolitics
Democrats and death......carrots and peas.