Category Archives: Euthanasia

by | July 31, 2013 · 5:34 pm

Yes, Virginia. Obamacare does include death panels

Well, duh. We all knew that. At least, those of us who were paying attention, as opposed to those who were drinking CØØL-AID.

Now it seems that prominent Democrat (former Vermont Governor, DNC Chairman) Howard Dean has published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal admitting Palin was right to oppose the Obamacare “Independent Payment Advisory Board.” The IPAB is exactly what Palin said.

IPAB: A panel of unelected, political appointees in D.C. with the power to decide who in America gets what health care treatment.

2013_07 Palin was right all along

Dean writes, “The IPAB is essentially a health-care rationing body. By setting doctor reimbursement rates for Medicare and determining which procedures and drugs will be covered and at what price, the IPAB will be able to stop certain treatments its members do not favor by simply setting rates to levels where no doctor or hospital will perform them.

There does have to be control of costs in our health-care system. However, rate setting — the essential mechanism of the IPAB — has a 40-year track record of failure. What ends up happening in these schemes (which many states including my home state of Vermont have implemented with virtually no long-term effect on costs) is that patients and physicians get aggravated because bureaucrats in either the private or public sector are making medical decisions without knowing the patients.”

The Right is delighted to see a prominent Dem like Dean making our case for us. Not that the Left cares. Obamacare never was about lowering health care costs or any of the other rainbow and unicorns crap they claimed it was about. It was, is and will continue to be about

  • increasing the power and wealth of elite Democrat politicians,
  • decreasing American freedoms with a top down control system, and
  • killing all those who are deemed unfit or inconvenient by those in power.

In short, it’s about destroying the FAITH, HOPE and CHARITY that have been the hallmarks of our Christian Constitutional Republic from its founding and replacing them with the HATE, DESPAIR and SELFISHNESS that are the hallmarks of the Atheistic Socialist Dictatorship the Left wants running America.

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by | July 9, 2013 · 10:18 pm

The Fifth Commandment: You shall not kill.

Respect LIFE

The Book of Exodus, translated literally, says “You shall not murder” (Ex 20:13).

We should easily understand the distinction, since our own laws distinguish between First Degree (pre-meditated) Murder, Second-Degree (meant it but didn’t plan it) Murder, Manslaughter (my own actions could and did cause the death of another), Self-Defense (it was him or me), and Accident (someone died because of me, but I had no way of foreseeing or preventing it).

This is why Catholics are not forbidden to serve in the military, where killing is possible and possibly for many even likely, but where murder is never condoned. Not ever. (I’m a military mom. Do NOT get me started on the slander the Left spews about MY KIDS on this and other — e.g., torture — topics.)

Why does the Church teach that it is never permissible to murder?

God alone is Lord over life and death. Human life is sacred, because it belongs to God. It is His property. Therefore, an attack on human life is a sacrilege committed against God.

No right will be long guaranteed

What sorts of attacks on human life are forbidden by the Fifth Commandment?

  • Murder and acting as an accomplice to murder are forbidden.
  • Killing unarmed civilians during a war is forbidden.
  • The abortion of a human being, from the moment of conception on, is forbidden.
  • Suicide, self-mutilation, and self-destructive behavior are forbidden.
  • Euthanasia—killing the handicapped, the sick, and the dying—is also forbidden.

Today people often try to get around the Fifth Commandment with seemingly humane arguments. But neither euthanasia nor abortion is a humane solution. That is why the Church is perfectly clear on these questions. Whoever participates in an abortion, forces a woman to undergo an abortion, or merely advises her to do so is automatically excommunicated—just as with other crimes against human life. If a psychologically ill person commits suicide, responsibility for the act of killing is often diminished and in many cases completely annulled.

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