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Posted on 02/12/2018 6:08:30 AM PST by NKP_Vet
Apparently assisted suicide is not enough for the death peddlers in this Pacific Northwest State. Now they are pushing legislation in the Oregon State Legislature that would allow starving mentally ill patients to death.
A similar bill was defeated last year but the euthanasia promoters are back with a new one, Oregon Right to Life tells LifeNews. House Bill 4135 is scheduled for a hearing and possible work session in the House Health Care Committee at 3:00 pm on February 7th. It is believed this bill will move quickly because there are only 35 days in the 2018 regular session.
Last session a similar bill (SB 494) was introduced in the Senate by Senator Floyd Prozanski . It died in the House. The new bill, HB 4135, is chief sponsored by Speaker of the House, Tina Kotek.
“Supporters of this bill are touting it as a ‘fix,’ but the only fixing that is happening is fixing it so vulnerable Oregonians are left without protections and their right to basic care like food and water,” said ORTL Executive Director Lois Anderson. “One wonders what the true motivations are for this legislation.”
Anderson says HB 4135 is purported to just be a bill that makes technical changes to the current statutory advance directive form found in ORS 127.531. However, over the last 25 years Oregonians at the end-of-life stage have been protected by the current advance directive and removing it from statute has legal consequences.
“The advance directive was put into Oregon statute back in 1993. I was then a state senator when a very well vetted bill was thoroughly discussed and passed. I worked hard to ensure the advance directive was in statute. If it were to be removed from statute, I fear the legal protections we carefully placed there could be jeopardized, potentially harming end of life decisions for vulnerable patients,” stated Representative Bill Kennemer (R- HD 39).
Under current Oregon law, a healthcare representative does not have the authority to make a life ending decision for an incapable person unless the representative has been given authority to do so, or the incapable person is in one of four end of life situations defined in statute.
Anderson said that if HB 4135 is passed a person who appoints a healthcare representative, but makes no decisions regarding end of life care, would be granting his or her healthcare representative the power to make a life ending decision for the principal even when the principal is not in one of the four statutorily defined end of life situations, and even if this is not the will of the principal.
Last year’s bill was touted as a good thing, but in fact it promoted the withholding or withdrawal of nutrition and hydration (food and water) from people who are incompetent and not dying.
“cruel and unusual” comes to mind. Where is the ACLU, still trying to get men into women’s restrooms (the perverts!)?
Perhaps, Oregon’s governor, the mayor of Portland, and a couple of senators can give this program a test run? /sarc
Start with the Legislature.
A Japanese work so bad after all, by comparison
He gave you a D because you were right and called them out. Even then the learning institutions had been overrun by the left.
Crunch time is coming.
I look forward to the day when lawmakers and judges who pushed abortion and euthanasia, along with those who actually did these deeds, are hunted down like the NAZI war criminals they are.
Yep, my closing comment in the essay response was:
“...and your 3-day flu just lasted a day too long, come with me.”
On the surface, do we really want a law that allows starving Democrats to death? Maybe but not nice. /s
I have a feeling the Almighty is going to wake Mount Saint Helens again, and this time it will finish the job.
They call us Nazis, but even the Nazis murdered the mentally ill more humanely than by starvation.
Psychiatry and psychology aren’t even real. It’s 100% made up crap. They cannot tell if you have chemical imbalance, they can’t tell anything, it’s all guessing. When cornered these people admit it. It’s whatever they want it to be. Then they push pills, and they profit.
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It's used as a means to power, that's it.
Don't worry, they'll still get to vote.
Progressivism = Evil
The more they express hatred for Nazis the more like them they become.
The State of Evil.
Yes it is, but a lot of people get outright hostile when I tell them the truth.
Democrats: the party of death.
I’m sure a few FReepers are in the psych “profession.” Not many, as it tends to be a liberal avocation, but a few.
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