Physician Assisted Suicide/ Doctor Prescribed Suicide
"WORDS THAT WORK"
Sunday, Nov. 13, Assumption College, Worcester, 12:30pm to 4:30pm, La Maison Francaise Building. This year's Chapter Leadership Conference is different from those in the past. Pro-lifers and anyone who wants to be prepared for this battle are urged to attend.
Monday, Nov 14, St John's Seminary, Brighton, 12 noon - 2:30pm. Lunch in the Refectory. Presentation in the Medeiros Classroom. Clergy and pro-lifers.
Wednesday, Nov 16, St. Stanislaus Hall, Main Street, West Warren, 12 noon to 2:30pm. Clergy and pro-lifers.
NB. All presentations include lunch, so please register at 617-242-4199 X 230 or reply to this email with your name, address and phone number. Be sure to register by three days before the event you plan to attend.
When this issue heats up and your friends are falling for the death arguments, you will be so grateful you had the chance to learn from Rita! Find out more about Rita at http://www.patientsrightscounc...
It's 2020 and Obamacare's mandates have Sam, an insurance agent with Memorial Healthcare Network, out patrolling Massachusetts looking for new ways to cut costs.
"I am about in tears. This is the best pro-life fiction I've ever read. I'd ask for more right now but it's so disturbing-- and so realistic in my mind-- that I'm a little afraid to bite off anymore just yet.
Enforcing Obamacare at the Memorial Healthcare Network in 2020 Part 4 in a series of 9
It's 2020 and Obamacare's mandates have Sam, an insurance agent with Memorial Healthcare Network, out patrolling Massachusetts looking for new ways to cut costs.
Lisa Julianne Olson. Seven months old. Athetoid Cerebral Palsy patient. Pregnancy complicated by short umbilical cord and nosocomial infection. Delivery complicated by placental abruption and inexperienced hospital staff. Severe seizures already evident. Likely mental retardation. The future looks very dim for her, which was why she needed to die.
Enforcing Obamacare at the Memorial Healthcare Network in 2020 Part 3 in a series of 9
It's 2020 and Obamacare's mandates have Sam, an insurance agent with Memorial Healthcare Network, out patrolling Massachusetts looking for new ways to cut costs.
I remember when I first started selling health insurance. I got my license and my regional supervisor sat down with me one Monday afternoon. "Everybody knows a hundred people," he said. "We're not leaving this table until we make a list of one hundred people you can ask." They were mostly family and friends. I was twenty-six and was tired of working nights and weekends at a rather terrible seafood restaurant here in Worcester.
Enforcing Obamacare at the Memorial Healthcare Network in 2020 Part 2 in a series of 9
It's 2020 and Obamacare's mandates have Sam, an insurance agent with Memorial Healthcare Network, out patrolling Massachusetts looking for new ways to cut costs.
It's all about the numbers. If you thought nationalizing healthcare was about compassion and fairness, you were mistaken. Who is productive? Who will be productive? How much is a person worth to society? Now and in the future? How old are they? What are the odds of recovery? Everyone gets a cost-benefit analysis for every treatment. Everyone is a capital investment by society, demanding a high immediate return. We're all cogs in a production machine. Suddenly your IRS 1040 form found its way into your medical history.
Enforcing Obamacare at the Memorial Healthcare Network in 2020 Part 1 in a series of 9
It's 2020 and Obamacare's mandates have Sam, an insurance agent with Memorial Healthcare Network, out patrolling Massachusetts looking for new ways to cut costs.
Deb's Diner
Salem, Massachusetts
Fall, 2020
I didn't make the world this way.
It wasn't me. I didn't vote in 2008. Heck, I don't even vote now. It's not that I don't care about politics, but it always seemed to me that the world was messed up no matter who was in office. It's always men with good hair arguing against other men with good hair. There's no point to it, none that I can see.
Statement by Massachusetts Citizens for Life on the "Death with Dignity" petition. Contact Anne Fox, 781-449-1774
Boston, Sept 7, 2011: "Massachusetts Citizens for Life today expressed grave concern that the so-called 'Death with Dignity' initiative petition has been certified by the Attorney General. The petition would make it legal to expect that a doctor would prescribe a lethal drug to anyone who asks if, in the opinion of the doctor, the person will not live past six months.
This is Physician Assisted Suicide or Doctor Prescribed Suicide.
Doctor Prescribed Suicide is already legal in Oregon where Barbara Wagner and other cancer patients received a chilling letter from the Oregon Health Plan. The state controlled health care program would not support the treatment their doctors recommended that might extend their lives, but would pay for 'life-ending medication'.
The definition of medication is something that will cure, heal, or at least alleviate symptoms. Trying to sell the idea of a lethal drug overdose as 'medicine' threatens to undermine society's commitment to care for those we cannot cure.
A law like Oregon's is not about dignity or compassion - not for patients like Barbara Wagner, at any rate. It is about government dismissing the inherent worth of some people.
Doctor Prescribed Suicide is poor public policy with negative consequences. MCFL will work to educate the public on better ways to care for people."
These are more helpful sources for us to become as knowledgeable as we can on the death lobby's petition here in Massachusetts. If they can pass DPS here, it will be huge! Anne
Massachusetts has been targeted! We must prepare! This will be a huge job! We are working on setting up a committee to fight this horrendous petition.
Each of us individually needs must talk to as many people as possible. When you do, you will find that people are not well-informed. They do not realize that doctors can control pain, that most people who consider suicide are depressed and need help for that, and they do not realize the extent of elder abuse. Please talk to people. That will help you become more persuasive. These web sites will help you to answer the questions you are hearing.:
We were checking MCFL News archives and found this article by Dr. Stanton who was among the first to recognize the dangers in euthanasia and assisted suicide. http://massprolife.com/euthana...
Please bookmark these websites and consult them regularly. We can do this! Anne
Massachusetts
Background
In Massachusetts, more people die annually from suicide than from motor vehicle accidents. [CDC National Vital Statistics Reports, Apr. 24, 2008] In 2007, the state's suicide rate (8.0 per 100,000 people) was almost three times higher than the homicide rate (2.9 per 100,000 people).
According to Elder Abuse Daily, more than 1 in 10 Massachusetts elders are victims of abuse.
Current law regarding assisted suicide
Assisted suicide, including doctor-prescribed suicide, is a common law crime in Massachusetts.
On August 2, 2011, supporters of doctor-prescribed suicide filed a petition seeking to put a measure called the Massachusetts "Death With Dignity Act" on the 2012 ballot. The proposal is virtually identical to their previous legislative attempts and mirrors the Oregon and Washington laws by the same name. The process for the measure actually reaching the voters requires several steps:
The legal language on the petition must be approved by Attorney General Martha Coakley.
The signatures of at least 68,911 registered voters must be obtained by mid-November.
If the signature drive is successful, lawmakers have until May 2012 to either back the proposal, offer an alternative proposal, or permit the measure to go onto the November 2012 ballot.
If the measure gets the go ahead to be placed on the November 2012 ballot, an addition 11,485 signatures must be collected.
Articles
"Drive begins to put assisted suicide law on the ballot next year" (Boston Globe - August 4, 2011)
Backer of assisted suicide for certain terminally ill patients filed paperwork yesterday with Attorney General Martha Coakley to begin the process of bringing their plan, dubbed the Death with Dignity Act to the 2012 ballot.
"Backers of assisted suicide want 2012 ballot question in Mass." (Milford Daily News - August 4, 2011)
A ballot question that would pave the way for assisted suicide for some terminally ill patients in Massachusetts could land in front of voters next year. Rep. Louis Kafka, D-Stoughton, who filed a bill earlier this year that resembles the assisted suicide ballot proposal, said the ballot initiative could draw more attention to the issue.
For the past couple of years, "Death With Dignity", "Compassion in Dying" and the rest of the DEATH LOBBY have been announcing that they would sponsor an Initiative Petition in New England. Massachusetts and Vermont are the only states where that can be done. The people in Vermont held them off this winter, with a little help from us.
Well, the sword of Damocles has fallen! Last week they filed the petition below.
Polls show that, until they are educated, people fall hook line and sinker for the death rhetoric. When you read their petition you will see it is like a siren song.
There will be so much for us to do to protect vulnerable people.
The first need: if you are a nurse or if you have survived a fatal diagnosis, please contact me right away by pressing "reply" or calling the office: 617-242-4199. Bless you! Anne
A 12-year-old child prodigy has astounded university professors after grappling with some of the most advanced concepts in mathematics.
Jacob Barnett has an IQ of 170 - higher than Albert Einstein - and is now so far advanced in his Indiana university studies that professors are lining him up for a PHD research role.
The boy wonder, who taught himself calculus, algebra, geometry and trigonometry in a week, is now tutoring fellow college classmates after hours.
And now Jake has embarked on his most ambitious project yet - his own 'expanded version of Einstein's theory of relativity'.
His mother, not sure if her child was talking nonsense or genius, sent a video of his theory to the renowned Institute for Advanced Study near Princeton University.
He and his sister - his last remaining sibling or significant relative - were residents at the same nursing home my grandmother lived in for the last years of her life.
About once every month or so, I'd go visit my grandmother. My mother usually saw her about once every two weeks. In the last year of her life, my mother made the 90 minute round trip to see her three times a week.
Every time I went, I'd see Charlie, too. Not because I sought him out, but because he sought out everyone else. Charlie was a social butterfly. He got along well with everyone. Everyone loved to see him come by, he was a ray of sunshine in an otherwise unhappy place. And nursing homes can be very unhappy places - even the very best of them. The nursing home that housed my grandmother and Charlie was quite comfortable.
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