Idaho SB 1114 Futile Care Theory Authorization Bill Is Apparently Dead for This Year
Great news from a behind the scenes source: I have just been told that SB 1114, the bill that would have explicitly legalized futile care theory in Idaho, has died for the year. It almost snuck by, but when opponents learned about it, they mounted an 11th hour campaign to prevent passage. That campaign seems to have succeeded.
More details when I know more, but I have this on very good and trustworthy authority. It's a shame that some good things got delayed, but we cannot permit "optional" bioethics committees to force people off of wanted life-sustaining treatment--indeed, overturn explicit written instructions by the patient in an advance directive--based on the institutional culture or the committee's or physician's values.
I am told conversations will continue to make the bill acceptable. That's fine with me. But in the meantime: Huzzah!
Labels: Futile Care Theory. SB 1114.
posted by Wesley J. Smith @ 3:14 PM
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6 Comments:
Horray!!!
I don't understand the part about conversations continuing to make the bill acceptable, etc.
Overturning advanced directives, using them when the patient no longer wants them followed -- these people just use these documents -- which should not exist and which were created to serve their purposes, not the patient's -- as they wish. No one should ever play along by signing one. Their existence and acceptance helped to bring things to this point -- as was intended. Birth is a life sentence. The life of the one who wants to live is more important than the preference of the one who does not, and the loss of the former is more significant than the suffering of the latter. Life isn't kind, but it's of paramount importance, and it's of paramount importance that it not be denied.
Ianthe: As I understand it, not being a direct party to the conversation, that there is discussion for changes that would prevent unilateral cut off of tratment, and thereby allow other parts of the bill, which covers a lot of issues, that are not objectionable to move forward. But I don't think that will happen this year.
Wesley: That's heartening. That there should even be what needs to be prevented is parlous and inexcuseable, meriting more than discussion -- more like a bazooka and a axe and some missiles and grenades and what we used on Hiroshima and some really good attack Dobermans and...well, what else does the military got? Now that's an idea, organizations already fighting the culture of death, and D.A., and the Justice Department, and the military and mercenaries and, hey, Obama wants a civilian militia... -- all banding together and stomping on all this legalized murder business tha goes on in hospitals as well as other places. Hard.
To the point of scorched-earth, total annihilation and obliteration. I left out whatever we used on Hiroshima, didn't I. Well the whole panoply of arsenal. Sending in he Marines except the Marines have to include the civilian population as well. There needs to be a whole lot more noise than there has been thus far, too. Civilized debate is an insult to those debating on the side of life, as the other side isn't civilized; things in print, etc. are on the right track but not strong enough and won't do the job -- because the enemy isn't civilized. This has to be heavy-duty. Fighting for life is an all-stops-out, no-holds-barred, bloody battle. The other animals know that. We have to remember that we're animals too. In this situation we have to remember that fangs and claws and brute might were awarded and provided by Nature in the cause of life.
SHS: Is it known whether and how often D.A.s have gotten involved in these situations, or been asked to? Don't district attorneys have some sot of nationwide network? How about their equivalent in other countries?
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