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Politics : Margaret Sanger's Eugenic Legacy of Death, Disease, Depravit
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To: Brumar89 who wrote (226)11/10/2015 10:56:57 AM
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California's Physician-Assisted Suicide Law Requires Doctors to Lie

Michael Egnor November 9, 2015 5:29 PM

California has a new physician-assisted suicide law that contains a provision that is Orwellian. The law permits physicians to prescribe lethal overdoses of medications to be taken by terminally ill patients. The purpose is to prevent the patient from dying from his underlying disease, such as cancer.

The Orwellian provision is that the law requires that physicians lie about the cause of death on the patient's death certificate. A note about death certificates is warranted. Death certificates (which are filled out by the deceased patient's doctor) contain a list of causes of death, with the first cause of death listed being the proximate cause of death, with the second and third contributing factors, if present, listed below. It is the doctor's responsibility to fill out the death certificate. It is an important legal responsibility, and there are criminal penalties for the doctor if he lies on the death certificate.

Except in California. Under the assisted-suicide law, the doctor is required to lie on the death certificate. The California law requires that the doctor list the cause of death as the patient's terminal illness, and not that the patient died from a lethal overdose.

California's new law includes the following requirement:

The cause of death listed on an individual's death certificate who uses aid-in-dying medication shall be the underlying terminal illness.

Note the irony: The purpose of the law is to prevent the patient from dying from his underlying illness, yet the law requires that physicians falsely certify that the patient did die from his underlying illness.

The legal requirement that physicians lie is a tacit admission of the immorality of physician-assisted suicide. If you don't feel a chill up your spine, you don't understand what happened in California.

http://www.evolutionnews.org/2015/11/californias_phy100761.html
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