DOCTOR PRESCRIBED SUICIDE

THREATENS PENNSYLVANIA NS Bills are being introduced in the Pennsylvania House and Senate to authorized physicians to prescribe lethal drugs for the purpose of ending people’s lives. The bills are backed by an organization called “Compassion & Choices,” formerly known as the Hemlock Society. They are opposed by disability rights organizations throughout the state. If these bills are enacted, death will immediately become one of the services that physicians propose and deliver to their patients. Insurance companies and hospitals will begin to categorize some patients as candidates for elimination. A protocol will be established for determining for whom and under what conditions death will be the “gold standard” in health care. Patients will inevitably come under heavy pressure to choose death rather than risk being a financial and/or emotional burden to their families, their health care providers, and society as a whole. These are just a few of the short-tem dangers. Over the long term, doctor-prescribed suicide is merely an interim stop on the road to direct euthanasia (the doctor kills the patient by a direct act), and, once the wall between life and death -- the injunction, “Thou shalt not kill” -- has been breeched, deceptively-reassuring “restrictions” and “safeguards” will quickly crumble in the face of demands for “autonomy” and “equality.” As has already happened in that case of abortion, America will descend toward a national policy of “death on demand.” This has already happened in several European countries. «« PLEASE CONTACT YOUR STATE LEGISLATORS «« Please tell your state representative: Do not cosponsor or in any way support Representative 's "Care Act," which would legalize doctor-prescribed suicide. Please tell your state senator: Do not cosponsor or in any way support Senator Daylin Leach's "Death with Dignity Act," which would legalize doctor-prescribed suicide. (Bill numbers had not been assigned as of March 6, 2015.)

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