Euthanasia poll in my town

[Pumpkin]

I am really disapointed in my town. There is a news bit on euthanasia and a poll about if people think it should be leagal…unfortunately the poll is 74% yes. Anyone want to help sway this poll in favor of our lord? Here is the link…

channelcincinnati.com/health/5058188/detail.html

The poll is listed under the link “survey: should it be legal?” under the picture.

I know these polls are never scientific but I do like to see them reflect the morals of the Catholic faith. My town is supposed to be conservative and full of Catholics!

Thanks everyone!

 

[koda]

Pumpkin:

I am really disapointed in my town. There is a news bit on euthanasia and a poll about if people think it should be leagal…unfortunately the poll is 74% yes. Anyone want to help sway this poll in favor of our lord? Here is the link…

channelcincinnati.com/health/5058188/detail.html

The poll is listed under the link “survey: should it be legal?” under the picture.

I know these polls are never scientific but I do like to see them reflect the morals of the Catholic faith. My town is supposed to be conservative and full of Catholics!

Thanks everyone!

I read a great book on this subject that every pro-death person should have to read. It is “The Culture of Death - The Assault on Medical Ethics in America” by Wesley J. Smith. I was reading quotes to my husband who actually had a hard time believing them because they were so horrible - things you’d think would be on the front page of the paper but you never hear about them. I have an advanced directive and I suggest everyone get one for themselves and their loved ones.

 

[Pumpkin]

koda:

I read a great book on this subject that every pro-death person should have to read. It is “The Culture of Death - The Assault on Medical Ethics in America” by Wesley J. Smith. I was reading quotes to my husband who actually had a hard time believing them because they were so horrible - things you’d think would be on the front page of the paper but you never hear about them. I have an advanced directive and I suggest everyone get one for themselves and their loved ones.

Sounds like an interesting book. My job is Clinical Quality and I deal with assuring the care of patients by nurses and physicians at my hospital. Not only is euthanasia morally wrong, if it were legalized it would be a quality and risk management nightmare. We are ethically and legally responsible for the well-being of the patient and abortion and euthanasia blurs the lines. Euthanasia goes against the Code of ethics for every healthcare professional. If you are interested in reading about medical ethics there are some horrible research studies that were conducted without any informed consent. Look up the Tuskegee syphilis studies, and Milgram …unfortunately the list goes on I took a whole course that just focused on the modern atrocities.

The sad thing is that the people, who want every freedom regardless of it’s direct defiance of God’s law, want the freedom to silencing the most vulnerable populations.

 

[Eileen_T]

It depends on the way the questions in the survey are worded.

I had dealt with this in the website I am developing:

life.org.nz/euthanasiamediakeyissuespublicopinionpolls.htm

While there is support if the question is framed like this:
“If a hopelessly ill patient, in great pain, with absolutely no chance of recovering, asks for a lethal dose, so as not to wake again, should the doctor be allowed to give the lethal dose?”

I imagine it wouldn’t have as much support if it asked:
“If a doctor is so negligent as to leave a terminally-ill patient in pain, severe enough to drive him / her to ask to be killed, should the doctor be able to compound that negligence by killing the patient, instead of seeking help?”

Send letters to the editor, short, sharp and snappy that highlight this difference.