Thread by Red Badger.
Abortion centers are not nice places. How many more horror stories need to be uncovered before America wakes up to this harsh truth?
Philadelphia and federal authorities who raided a doctor’s office after allegations a woman died during an abortion made a shocking discovery: more than two dozen frozen fetuses.
For the second time in four days, Philadelphia Police, along with State Licensing officials and DEA agents, searched the West Philadelphia office of Dr. Kermit Gosnell on Monday.
Sources tell Eyewitness News that the search came after a patient reportedly died during an abortion on November 20. Sources say the female patient had high levels of a painkilling drug in her body and autopsy results are pending.
Sources also told Eyewitness News that during the search, investigators recovered more than two dozen fetuses stored in a freezer, some dating back 30 years. The fetuses are now being analyzed to reveal if illegal late-term abortions may have been performed. (Local CBS 3)
Let’s pray for these poor babies, for the women who are tempted into having their children aborted and – yes – for the people who perform these little murders, that they will experience swift conversion.
Thread by me.
February 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An Angus Reid poll released last week found that approximately two-thirds of Canadians nationwide support the legalization of euthanasia. At the same time, however, a prominent anti-euthanasia activist has questioned the results, saying that “there's still an awful lot of misunderstanding” about euthanasia.
The poll found that respondents from Quebec and British Columbia were most likely to support the legalization of euthanasia and assisted suicide. 67% of all respondents supported legalizing euthanasia, while 77% of respondents from Quebec supported legalization, and 75% of those from BC. Twenty-three percent of respondents opposed legalization.
Additionally, 48% disagreed with the statement that legalizing euthanasia would “leave vulnerable people without sufficient legal protection,” while 41% agreed.
Regarding assisted suicide, 43% stated that parents who help a terminally ill son or daughter to die should not be punished, and 41% thought any person who helps someone else commit suicide should not be prosecuted.
The poll also asked whether respondents thought that legalizing euthanasia would give those who are suffering an opportunity to ease their pain. 85% agreed, and 9% disagreed.
The poll was conducted between February 2nd and 3rd, through online interviews with 1,003 Canadian adults. The margin of error is 3.1 per cent.
Alex Schadenberg, executive director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, told LifeSiteNews (LSN), however, that he does not consider “the poll results as being totally accurate.”
He explained that this is “not because I don't think there's a lot of support for euthanasia, because actually I know there is a fair amount, but because the Quebec physicians, for example, have been constantly talking about euthanasia as being the same thing as use of large doses of pain killers in palliative care, and, of course, that's not true.”
Schadenberg believes that ongoing statements from such bodies as the Quebec College of Physicians (CMQ) and the Federation of Quebec Medical Specialists (FMSQ) have exacerbated the confusion that exists around euthanasia.
Both the CMQ and the FMSQ have called for euthanasia to be legalized, while apparently arguing that the practice of palliative sedation is a form of euthanasia. Palliative sedation involves administering increasing doses of pain killers to terminally ill patients, and can result – often foreseeably, but unintentionally – with the death of the patient because ultimately lethal doses are required to control the pain.
The CMQ and FMSQ have both argued, as they did last week before the Quebec government's legislative committee examining euthanasia, that this practice, which has long been considered ethical by ethicists, could currently be considered illegal under Canadian law. While no doctors have been prosecuted, they insist that doctors fear the law.
Dr. Margaret Somerville, director of the Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law at McGill University, refuted this claim in an op-ed on Tuesday in the Montreal Gazette. “Palliative means the sedative was necessary to relieve pain and suffering and was not given with an intention of killing the patient,” she wrote. “That cannot result in a murder charge, or any other legal charge, unless the patient refused it.”
Somerville added that the public's wishes shouldn't dictate the law. “Just because the public wants something or a majority votes for it doesn't mean it is ethical - or even wise,” she wrote. “Democratic decisions and ethical ones are not necessarily the same.”
Schadenberg made a similar comment regarding the current Angus Reid poll. “Just because a large group of people want it to happen, that doesn't help out the group of people who are threatened by it,” he said. He explained that many people who favour euthanasia are “thinking out of fear.”
“They're thinking of 'I don't want to experience what maybe my mother or my aunt or my friend did.',” he said. “And that's understandable. But we don't give doctors the right to directly and intentionally cause our death because of fear.”
“What I'm suggesting is that the majority of Canadians don't actually understand the question,” Schadenberg reiterated. “If they did, they would feel far more unsettled.”
An October Environics poll commissioned by LifeCanada revealed a majority supporting euthanasia, but also seemed to indicate that Canadians are conflicted on the issue. While 61% stated support for legalization, 70% indicated that they were worried that if euthanasia were legalized, patients would be euthanized without their consent. Additionally, 69% said that the government's priority should be improving palliative care, while only 18% wanted legalization as the priority.
LifeSiteNews did not hear back from Angus Reid by press time.