[nickcarraway]

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[WOSG]

The Oregon Nursing Association has issued guidelines for assisted suicide that prohibit nurses from making "unwarranted, judgmental comments or actions" to patients, families or other colleagues when patients decide to kill themselves with doctor-prescribed lethal overdoses.

Anyone who says this is about "choice" is a fool or a liar ... or both. The culture of death abides no tolerance for objectors!

[waRNmother.armyboots]

Wow. I had no idea. Nurses have always been able to decline assisting with procedures if they have ethical, moral or religious objections. Considering that a significant number of older nurses and physicians considered health care a "calling", I am very concerned about health care in our country.

[PLK]

A dedicated nurse who cared for elderly nuns in a Catholic facility for over a decade was told she could resign when she objected to the slow starvation and dehydration deaths of two of her beloved nuns.

I know I'll get flamed for this, but here goes: I am very pro-life and am also a nurse. I don't know what e3mil.com represents, but I do know that spin can come from the right as well as the left, and this sounds like spinning to me. I really can't imagine Catholic nuns being starved to death, there's obviously more to the story that is not being included. I would bet my house that they were probably dying of a terminal illness and were simply not being force-fed by a tube or given IV fluids while they died.

Actually, we now know that, opposite previous thought, being in a state of dehydration during death is actually a blessing; it dries up lung secretions so that breathing is not so labored, and it decreases the discomfort of getting off and on a bedpan or into a bathroom during the last hours of life when mobility is poor and also anxiety about incontinence is lessened.

At any rate, this article makes a claim I just can't swallow. I need a lot more information before I would believe this as it's written.

One last comment, I have never been placed into a situation I have felt uncomfortable with at work. I currently work at a Catholic hospital, but even before at other jobs, no one forced me to participate in cares I did not want to. My religious views have always been respected.

[nickcarraway]

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[jpconservative]

The Wisconsin State Assembly just passed a modernization of the conscience clause laws by adding six new procedures that health care professionals would be protected from their refusal to participate based upon their creed.

Planned Parenthood and NARAL went nuts. A Democratic state rep from Milwaukee equated the pro-life movement with Islamic Jihad.

The same folks who shout choice, do not want to extend it to health care professionals who choose to preserve life and not destroy it.

[bonesmccoy]

sir,

healthcare has no choice.

If you are a citizen, there are regions where the physician supply is directly and incontrovertibly manipulated by illegal loan arrangements. The doctors don't know better because they can not afford attorney fees.

If you are a physician, you are in debt to the local hospital (because banks won't give business loans). If the local hospital dictates particular procedures to be done, you must carry out your hospital administrator's directives or face economic ruin.

[bonesmccoy]

sir,

healthcare has no choice.

If you are a citizen, there are regions where the physician supply is directly and incontrovertibly manipulated by illegal loan arrangements. The doctors don't know better because they can not afford attorney fees.

If you are a physician, you are in debt to the local hospital (because banks won't give business loans). If the local hospital dictates particular procedures to be done, you must carry out your hospital administrator's directives or face economic ruin.

[Mr. Silverback]

The enemy continues their pro-coercion work.

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[victim soul]

ping read later -- UGH!!!!!