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June 22, 2005
UK Doctors to back abortion rethink
Topics: Euthanasia advocacyFor new readers and my regular check-ins, if you've ever wondered why I put abortion-related posts under the category of "Euthanasia Advocacy," it's because there's no getting around the fact that killing a living human is check-book and/or convenience-driven euthanasia. Now to the topic of this post; it seems that doctors in the UK have figured out that ending the life of an unborn child is a little too close to murder for them, since premature babies born as young as 22 weeks, and actually younger, can now almost routinely survive.
(..) Four separate groups of doctors have submitted motions calling for the upper abortion limit to be lowered from 24 weeks, given that premature babies born as young as 22 weeks can now survive.
(...) One motion suggests a limit of 20 weeks. If the motion is passed, it would become BMA policy to lobby the government for a change.
(...) One section of the association, the junior members forum, which represents younger doctors, has already voted for lowering the limit.
(...) More than 500 representatives vote at the BMA annual meeting and a large number are expected to back the calls for lowering the limit.
But it's not all good news for pro-life advocates and folks that have an appreciation for the sanctity, mystery and beauty of human life (and please don't feed me any bull about too much pain from problems such as cancer, etc. You're talking to the wrong guy - been there, doing that, and still blogging - life matters!).
Incredibly, the same association will also hear a motion calling on it to drop its longstanding opposition to doctors helping terminally ill patients kill themselves. Four branches of the BMA have put forward motions calling for doctors to help with assisted suicides.
- TimesOnline A growing number of GPs are asking for the right to help
patients end their lives with dignity. Doctors argue there is a
fundamental difference between euthanasia -- in which the doctor ends
the patient's life -- and assisted suicides, when the doctor provides
the means for the patient to do it themselves. Anyone assisting a suicide currently faces 14 years in jail
and some Britons have gone to clinics in Switzerland to seek help in
ending their lives. Not all medical bodies support a change. In April, the Royal
College of Nursing resisted calls at its conference for a similar move.
The BMA's Oxford division proposes that the
association no longer stands in the way of a proposed law that would
allow patients over 18 who were terminally ill and suffering unbearably
to seek medical help to end their lives.
In either of the above cases, the UK continues down the slippery slope begun by abortion advocacy and tolerance of both abortion and suicide. Our societies have "progressed" from abortion, suicide, and murder, being murder, to abortion, suicide, and murder of the unborn, the infirmed, the handicapped, and the unproductive being tolerated, condoned, and supported by not only the relativists and secularists, but by the very profession sworn to care for and support life.
What ever happened to the idea that killing yourself or anyone else, for whatever reason, is wrong?
Posted by Hyscience at June 22, 2005 2:38 PM
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- Woman Awakes From 'Vegetative State' After 6 Years (Updated) - Mar 07, 2007
- Justifying Murder - Dec 01, 2006
- Shouldn't We Just Throw Them Off the Dover Cliffs? - Nov 09, 2006
- Scientific Experimentation without Limits - Oct 06, 2006
- Experimenting on the Worthless - Oct 04, 2006
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