Oregon Assisted Suicide Cultural Imperialism
If anyone thought that the international death with dignity crowd would allow Washington voters to decide for themselves whether to legalize assisted suicide, they were living in a fantasy world. The campaign was barely born last November and the Oregon Death with Dignity Political Action Committee donated $200,000 to the cause. They want this election and they want it bad.
Now, a quick question: Will the media, which are so often exorcised about the influence of money in political campaigns make a stink about this? Not on your life. Self Righteous condemnation of big money in campaigns is expressed only when the money is donated for causes with which journalists disagree.
Remember Missouri and Amendment 2 and Proposition 71? Huge bucks from special interests were poured into those campaigns with nary a peep from an outraged media. But had, say, Mel Gibson donated millions to defeat those plans, the howling would have been loud enough to wake the dead.
Labels: The Power of Money
posted by Wesley J. Smith @ 12:31 PM
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2 Comments:
I must tell you that I am extremely impressed- downright awestruck at the ability of you and your colleagues to keep assisted suicide in Oregon from snowballing to, at the least, the neighboring states. This flies in the face of a hundred years of state legislatures assuming the policies of neighboring or like states- especially innovative policies like Oregon's.
It's a miracle that you have been able to confine assisted suicide to Oregon- whatever strategies and tireless work you've done is amazing. Let's apply that to Texas to keep states from assuming futility policies like ours. Obama attempted to pass a virtual clone of the futile care law in IL, but other states have let Texas take all the criticism rightfully owed us and kept their futility cases in the courts rather than invite this kind of contraversy.
Just my theory.
Sometimes I'm ashamed to be a Texan, when I hear about futile care theory being practiced down here. We need to do everything in our power to get rid of futile care theory down here, and you're right, we need to keep it from spreading to other states.
I'm depressed. Here we have St. Jude hospital - a place where research done is shared with hopsitals all over the world, and where, no matter your ability to pay, your kid WILL be treated - in the same state where doctors want to kill someone diagnosed as PVS. It's sick.
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