For Euthanasia Fanatics, It's Never Enough
Wesley J. Smith November 22, 2015 11:26 AM
There is an insatiable logic to the euthanasia movement. Once becoming dead is transformed into a fundamental civil right, there is almost no limit to the killing/suicide license thereby created.
Case in point. The Voluntary Euthanasia Society in the Netherlands believes the wide-open killing license granted doctors -- its scope extending to the mentally ill, the elderly tired of life, the disabled, the grieving, the chronically ill, the terminally ill -- is just not enough.
Now, they want suicide pills made available to the elderly. From the DutchNews.nl story:
The Dutch voluntary euthanasia society is relaunching its campaign to have a pill made available to elderly people who wish to end their lives, the NRC says on Friday. The idea for such a pill was first launched at the beginning of the 1990s by senior judge and euthanasia campaigner Huib Drion and became known as 'Drion's pill'.
He said the pill should be issued free of charge to everyone over the age of 70 but his initiative floundered on medical, ethical and legal grounds. Now the NVVE is having a new attempt and this time says the pills should only be issued by pharmacists or family doctors. 'This is important to make sure the drugs cannot be used for suicide, abuse or murder,' the organisation said.
"The drugs cannot be used for suicide." What? That's their purpose!
It is amazing how death-obsessed these people are. Doctors are already permitted to teach their patients how to commit suicide if they don't qualify legally for euthanasia (a shrinking list). But even that is not enough.
When euthanasia began in the Netherlands, we who said it would lead to killing the mentally ill and conjoined medicalized killing with organ harvesting were called alarmist. Yet all that came to pass. I have little doubt that at some point, this will too.
http://www.evolutionnews.org/2015/11/its_never_enoug101101.html
And of course, Christian pharmacists would be required to stock suicide pills. See below:
Family pharmacy targeted by abortion activists and state of Washington.
No one is being deprived of the opportunity to buy an abortificant in Olympia WA, there are 30 pharmacies in the area that stock it. But the governor has conspired with abortion activists and Planned Baby Butchering for Profit to punish a family-owned two location grocery-pharmacy business. Denial of an individual businesses right to refuse to take part in what they consider abortion is precisely the issue.
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The “morning after” abortion pill “wasn’t even on my radar,” he says. “I got a call from a customer saying, ‘Why don’t you carry this product?’ I said, ‘I don’t know. Let me call our pharmacist and find out.’” The pharmacist told him no one had asked for Plan B before, so they didn’t stock it. Kevin called the customer back.
“We can’t stock everything,” he explained, and so, like any pharmacy, “we stock a sample of what our patients need and want and ask for.” The customer acknowledged that, but something in her tone troubled Kevin, who began doing some research into what exactly Plan B was. “And I realized it was not a product that I could, in good conscience, sell, because it really stopped a fertilized egg from implanting—and when an egg’s fertilized, that’s a life.”
...... “I started getting more and more phone calls about the product and why didn’t we carry it,” Kevin says. “I made it clear that that was not a product we were going to carry, that we would refer them to another pharmacy.” More than 30 nearby pharmacies sell Plan B, and under Washington law pharmacists have always been free to refer patients to other stores for products they don’t stock themselves—whatever their reasons for not stocking.
What the Stormans didn’t realize was that the phone calls were no accident— their stores were being “testshopped” by abortion activists determined to force them to sell the Plan B pill. When it became clear that the Stormans wouldn’t do that, the activists unleashed their deluge.
They called for boycotts of the stores, and picketers flooded the groceries’ parking lots, blocking the main entrance, disrupting traffic, yelling and chanting. Local papers began running articles, including letters from state legislators denouncing the Stormans.
Olympia is the state capital, and some of those legislators left their offices to come down and join the protests. “We were really very concerned about physical violence happening, because of just the nature of the signs and the aggressiveness of the group,” Kevin says. The family hired security guards, but customers began avoiding the stores, and sales plummeted. It was the beginning of a nine-year ordeal.
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To make things worse, the Stormans soon learned that the activists weren’t the only ones stalking them. The state’s highest official was personally helping paint a target on their backs.
“This wasn’t—and isn’t—just about the Stormans or access to Plan B,” says Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Kristen Waggoner, who has represented the family for close to a is about a national pro-abortion, anti-religion agenda, with activist groups intent on forcing providers to violate their faith and participate in the taking of human life. In fact, no woman has ever been denied timely access to Plan B for religious reasons.”
“In every state, a pharmacist is permitted to refer a patient for all kinds of reasons—business, economic, convenience or religious,” Waggoner says. “That’s a standard national practice in pharmacies.” With one exception. “Washington allows pharmacies to refer for almost unlimited reasons,” she says. “But in practice, they single out and ban religiously motivated referrals.”
“Not since colonial America have we as a nation required someone to participate in the taking of innocent human life against their will.”
Kristen Waggoner
In 2005, the Washington director of Planned Parenthood met privately with her former co-worker, Christine Gregoire, then the new governor of the state, urging her to force pharmacists to dispense early abortifacient drugs —even if the drugs were readily accessible elsewhere, and even if dispensing them violated the healthcare provider’s conscience. The governor obliged, calling on the state’s Board of Pharmacy to adopt a rule that would ban religiously motivated referrals in practice.
To her dismay, the board unanimously passed a regulation that continued to permit referrals, a practice endorsed by major medical and pharmaceutical associations, including the American Pharmacists Association. So the governor called for a revote, this time threatening to remove board members, if necessary. She also urged Planned Parenthood to prepare the new regulation for the board’s consideration. The board buckled, but prior to the final vote, the governor replaced board members, anyway, with new members chosen by the pro-abortion groups.
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