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Oregon Bill Would Allow Starving Mentally Ill Patients to Death
http://www.lifenews.com ^ | February 5, 2018 | Steve Ertelt

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.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: deathcare; deathpanels; elderly; euthanasia; palinwasright; slipperyslope; utilitarians
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To: NKP_Vet
Well, if you take all of the inmates on death row and have them declared mentally incompetent, they could get their death sentences overturned. Then you starve 'em. No more thirty-year warehousing on death row!

Progressives. You gotta love 'em!

41 posted on 02/12/2018 8:54:52 AM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: NKP_Vet

The Slippery Slope, in action.


42 posted on 02/12/2018 9:13:26 AM PST by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day")
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To: Lady Heron

The put dogs down kinder than starving them to death. Liberals are plain evil.
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I had to put a cat down..had her for 7 years and one second I was comforting her, the Vet asked if we were ‘ready’ I said go and it was over in a nanosecond. by the time he had pulled the syringe out, My pal was off to Rainbow Bridge.

Certainly hope I can go in such a dignified fashion BUT these idiots think it better to allow someone to starve to death.

AND THEY CALL US ANIMALS


43 posted on 02/12/2018 9:27:12 AM PST by xrmusn ((6/98)""Assume this is preceded by 'there is somebody somewhere who will say'")
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To: NKP_Vet
The Netherlands just killed a 29-year-old woman with a number of mental health diagnoses.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/26461/netherlands-doctors-approve-euthanizing-29-year-hank-berrien
44 posted on 02/12/2018 9:49:55 AM PST by Faith Presses On (Above all, politics should serve the Great Commission, "preparing the way for the Lord.")
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To: NKP_Vet

Putting out on the streets effectively starves them to death too.


45 posted on 02/12/2018 10:12:01 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: NKP_Vet

Couldn’t they do what the old Eskimos used to do, just send the old and infirm out on a chunk of ice and let the local bears and such finish the deed.. anture recycling itself.

It would seem to be more humane than starving one to death.

How Naziesque Death Camp can ya get? or dare I ask?


46 posted on 02/12/2018 10:20:20 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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To: miss marmelstein
Hitler won.

Hitler got his motivation from American eugenicists like Teddy Roosevelt and Margaret Sanger.

47 posted on 02/12/2018 1:04:24 PM PST by itsahoot (There will be division, as long as there is money to be divided.)
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To: Wm F Buckley Republican
Where do they find this many crazies in one place?

They attract them with free stuff and debauchery.

48 posted on 02/12/2018 1:06:38 PM PST by itsahoot (There will be division, as long as there is money to be divided.)
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To: rlmorel
"All the dead mentally ill people they murder."

LOL

49 posted on 02/12/2018 5:09:50 PM PST by HangThemHigh (Entropy is not what it used to be.)
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To: HangThemHigh

I had to laugh when it popped into my mind too, but...I swear these people baffle me...what is their fixation with death out there in Oregon?


50 posted on 02/12/2018 5:15:45 PM PST by rlmorel (Leftists: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette)
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To: digger48

They get rid of all the mentally ill, who will be left to vote Democrat?]

Just a bunch of crazy dead people, of course. :-)


51 posted on 02/12/2018 5:58:12 PM PST by sciencewriter86
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To: ptsal

Perhaps, Oregon’s governor, the mayor of Portland, and a couple of senators can give this program a test run? /sarc]

The Oregon governor is reportedly a bi-sexual. Wonder which bathroom s/he uses?


52 posted on 02/12/2018 6:01:51 PM PST by sciencewriter86
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