The Oregon Compassion and Choices Assisted Suicide Enabling Act: C and C "stewarded" 88% of Oregon Assisted Suicides in 2008
The assisted suicide law called the Oregon Death with Dignity Act--as if dying without poisoning yourself to death isn't dignified--should instead be called the Oregon Compassion and Choices Assisted Suicide Enabling Act. It turns out that representatives of the assisted suicide advocacy organization--formerly the Hemlock Society-- are involved with the great majority of the assisted suicide deaths that take place in Oregon.
Physicians for Compassionate Care former president Kenneth Stevens, MD, has gone through the statistics and come up with some startling--and telling--numbers. From his report:
Physicians for Compassionate Care former president Kenneth Stevens, MD, has gone through the statistics and come up with some startling--and telling--numbers. From his report:
Officers of the assisted-suicide-proponent organization Compassion in Dying/Compassion and Choices of Oregon are authors of Oregon's physician-assisted suicide law and self-proclaim they are the stewards of the PAS law. They have reported that their organization has "participated in more than three/quarters of the state's cases of doctor-assisted suicide." (The Oregonian, March 10, 2005, "Pharmacy Board with review failed assisted suicide" by Don Colburn)Here are the numbers, tallied by year, and note that last year C and C's rate was a record was 88%:
1998 -- 69%It is important to remember while pondering these figures, that C and C is a very ideological organization that has been using Oregon--and by extension, the people who died under the "C and C Assisted Suicide Enabling Act," for political purposes in its national assisted suicide legalization advocacy campaigns. So the next time you hear one of its representatives soothingly assuring that everything is under control, realize that they are right--it is under their control. Or to paraphrase the opening of old TV show The Outer Limits : They control the horizontal, they control the vertical, they control almost all that you see and hear about assisted suicide in Oregon.
1999 -- 67%
2000 -- 78%
2001 -- 81%
2002 -- 82%
2003 -- 81%
2004 -- 78%
2005 -- 66%
2006 -- 67%
2007 -- 65%
2008 -- 88%
Total 1998‐2008 --75%
posted by Wesley J. Smith @ 6:56 PM
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4 Comments:
Controlling people don't care about others' choices and are not exactly compassionate, from what I've seen.
Question that came immediately to Mind was to wonder how all of the assisted suicides were performed.. Yeah, I'm sadly out of touch with it.. Am only retaining a miniscule amount these days.. :\
I see you say poison.. Helium the way it is being used by FEN is a poison.. Are there technical distinctions that advocates should know to better talk the talk..?
Just keep cringing because of the image that is staying in Mind, the one generated because of GBI's investigation, that of the victim changing their mind while the perpetrator sits on top smothering them.. There is absolutely NO Dignity to be had from that image......
No there isn't any dignity in it. And it's murder, plain and simple. Are the perpetrators in jail? If not, why not?
"Dignity" and "death" don't belong together in the first place. Yet another oxymoron.
It's gotta be that climate and weather up there. Life requires sunlight, and living things thrive on a certain amount of consistency and predictability, as well. The less of that there is in the physical environment, the less apt people are to be able to cope, thrive, feel the value of life, etc. It could just have them messed up physically and in the head. Certainly I don't mean all Oregonians, I just mean that the incidence of it is apt to be higher there. And some who are less life-sympatico in the first place, for whatever reason, may be drawn there. I'm just going by common sense here; it's easier to see what might be going on and why when the focus is simple.
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