Posted on 03/26/2008 5:09:13 PM PDT by wagglebee
New York, NY (LifeNews.com) -- Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar, longtime hosts of the chatty television program "The View," praised Jack Kevorkian in a recent episode. Following news that Kevorkian has planned a Congressional bid, they praised him for killing more than 130 people in assisted suicides and murdering a disabled patient.
Kevorkian, a convicted murderer and assisted suicide crusader, made his candidacy for a Detroit-area Congressional seat official on Monday.
Justin McCarthy, a news analyst at Media Research Center, noted the comments from "The View" hosts in a recent post on MRC's blog Newsbusters.
Goldberg said she’s a "big fan" of Kevorkian "because he believed that he could help people who were in, in a place where no one was helping them."
"Euthanasia, like race, is one of those things nobody wants to talk about. It makes people very uncomfortable. I think euthanasia is, is an important thing and it should be there for people to make that decision if they chose to," she said.
Goldberg did not mention her belief about involuntary euthanasia, where patients are frequently killed by family members or medical staff without their knowledge or consent.
Joy Behar wondered: "Why is he a bad guy? I don't understand it...it’s over my head somewhere."
She went further than Goldberg in defending Kevorkian's killing a disabled patient.
Kevorkian has admitted to killing more than 130 people, including the televised death of Thomas Youk, netting him a 25-year prison sentence.
"He helped a guy who had Lou Gehrig’s disease, take himself out of this world because the guy was in excruciating terror," Behar said in defending the murder that landed Kevorkian in jail for several years before his parole.
"The thing about Kevorkian is that I don't consider him a bad guy," she concluded.
During the show, Sherri Shepherd cracked a few crass jokes -- most notably about how Kevorkian could help presidential candidate John McCain with "an exit strategy."
As is typically the case, pro-life host Elisabeth Hasselbeck was the only one to speak up for the moral or ethical position on the bioethics question.
"The lines get blurry if you're dealing with someone who’s life is almost in control, in someone else’s hands," she said. "You know, there are a lot of things. There are a lot of gray areas in that whole conversation."
Hasslebeck said she was worried about people who have control of the finances of a patient wanting to end their lives in order to inherit their possessions.
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LOTS of things are "over your head," but even a person of your mediocre intellect should be able to comprehend that murder is wrong.
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I would suggest it for Democrats except that it doesn’t seem to stop them from voting.
I’ve been back and forth on this for years, ever since my own mother, with the last drop of strength she had left, begged me to shoot her in her last days of life. Where is the compassion of allowing someone to suffer so? And yes, she was in hospice and had as much pain med as she could have.
“comprehend that murder is wrong.”
It is not murder when I chose the why and how I die. Get your nose out of my life/death.
It's not murder if I want it.
When a person takes an ACTIVE ROLE in another person's death it is MURDER, that is why Kevorkian was convicted of MURDER.
Actually, it is.
Actually, it’s not.
Whoopi has had MULTIPLE ABORTIONS!! Culture of DEATH.
What I find most shocking is that she found men to sleep with her.
Believe what you want.
No problemo - they can go next. I’m sure that somewhere someone could be found who would claim that it’s in their own best interests.
LOL!!! Well....TED DANSON was one of them.....’nuff said.
If you ask someone else to kill you it’s murder.
If you kill yourself it’s not murder - it’s suicide.
This has been the way civilized societies have viewed this for many many years.
If you want to kill yourself you are welcome to do so - only you can call the shots on that. Asking for someone else to kill you is morally wrong. Why would you want to burden another with your death? If you want to die then do it yourself - take responsibility for your own demise.
Seems there is a market for it.
If my life was ending and I was in terrible pain, I'd rather have someone give me
a few pills and just let it go. Better than using a gun, that's messy and crude.
Bingo!
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