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Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Australian press use war stories to sway reader toward support for euthanasia

 Pro life crusader, Alex Schadenberg of Euthanasia Prevention Coalition of Canada
sent an email alert out about this article and asking us  to go online and vote against the poll in Australia  to support euthanasia.  He said this  is an important poll because South Australia currently has bills in the upper and lower houses to legalize euthanasia. 

When I went online to vote it had an accompanying story that was clearly slanted  to sway readers to support euthanasia. It talked about a wartime doctor telling the horrors of war and sharing stories meant to provoke  the emotions of the readers. 

I have posted before about sharing the stage with someone from the hospice industry who  told about how we now had the means to alleviate pain during  terminal illnesses without actively killing the patient.There is a difference in keeping the patient pain free until death overtakes them and killing them  to prevent suffering. As we know from our friends in the Netherlands, euthanasia has become something entirely different. It is no longer for the terminally ill but the depressed and just plain tired of living not to mention the  slippery slope from the "right to die"  to "the duty to die" to the  involuntary euthanasia.

This doctor writes of the active killing of someone on  the battlefield who is wounded and calmly says  this is done by doctors everyday.  But Australia is not talking about what is going to happen on the battlefield but in hospitals and nursing homes. Shame on the press for using this story  to sway opinion.

After the booby-trap on a second house was defused, Dr Jurisevic found a dead man and child inside and a partially disemboweled woman with both knees shot to prevent her moving.  He shot her in the head. The surgeon says that while his method of ending her life seems violent, it was no different to the sort of decisions doctors make every day.
"Euthanasia in Australia is practiced all the time," he says. "It definitely happens, you ask any doctor. You can't keep people suffering."

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