This has NOTHING to with “compassion” or “death with dignity”!
This is about:
-Bastardizing the Medical Profession,
-Selfish family members who just want “their problem” to go away.
The individuals who contend, “Well I don’t want to ......”, simply do NOT know until they get there. And even then, have no business imposing on medical professionals to act against their oath.
http://www.ctfamily.org/news.htm
“Though FIC Action and our allies crushed assisted suicide at the state Capitol just last year—and it is the exact same legislature convening today—the George Soros-funded pro-assisted suicide group is using its great wealth to force our overburdened state government to take up the issue again in the 2014 “short session.” Speaker of the House Brendan Sharkey has practically guaranteed that there will be another public hearing this year on assisted suicide.
We have to respond. We have to contact out legislators now and ask them to again oppose assisted suicide.
FIC Action does not support keeping a patient alive by extraordinary means against that patient’s will. We support true aid-in-dying, which is hospice care. What we oppose is licensing doctors to proscribe lethal drugs for the purpose of taking a human life, proscribing suicide as a treatment.
And we are not alone. The Connecticut Hospice Association, Connecticut Medical Association, disability rights advocates and many on the political Left joined FIC Action last year in opposing assisted suicide because it is bad public policy that puts vulnerable populations at risk. We can find alternatives for easing pain without passing a law that could put pressure on the elderly and people with disabilities to feel that they are a burden and should end their lives.
The societal implications of legalizing assisted suicide are staggering. Government and doctors would be endorsing suicide. One Connecticut legislator at the “Compassion and Choices” press conference last year admitted under questioning that once this first bill is passed, they could come back for a second bill to allow the mentally incompetent to take their own lives. In Belgium, a law to euthanize children is moving forward. In Oregon, patients desiring treatment under the Oregon Health Plan have been offered assisted suicide instead.
We cannot let this happen in Connecticut. FIC Action needs your help to stop the assisted suicide bill. Here are three ways that you can fight back”