concerned citizen Euthanasia Sat Oct 25 23:28:01 2003 204.94.205.145 AUSTRALIA: Dr. John Fleming of the Southern Cross Bioethics Institute warns against legalizing “living wills.” Dr. Fleming said, “Living wills are something that use doctors as tools to bring about a patient’s death and deprive doctors of their moral role to care for patients.” (Reading: “Don’t Legalise ‘Living Wills,’ Warn Anti-Euthanasia Campaigners,” PA News, 3/13/98) hospice PROBLEM? A National Hospice Organization flyer includes endorsement of the living will, the durable power of attorney and a referral to the pro-death Choice in Dying organization in New York City. To query their slide toward mercy killing call 1-800-658-8898. The National Hospice Organization should not be embracing the enemies of life. (Reading: National Hospice Organization brochure; “Hospice, Not Hemlock,” Policy Review, 3–4/97, pp. 40–48) mercy or murder OHIO: House Bill 354, known as the “do-not-resuscitate” bill, is dangerous. Physician Dennis Doody points out that “physicians and other health care providers would be prohibited by law from administering resuscitative treatment if the patient had made the choice to declare himself as a ‘do not resuscitate’ case.” (Reading: Testimony of Dr. Dennis Doody to the Ohio Senate Health Committee, 3/11/98; copies of this testimony are available from ALL) organ donations MISSOURI: HB 1670, the “Life for a Life Program,” is a bill in the state legislature that “allows persons sentenced to death to have their sentences commuted to life without parole” by participating in a program wherein they will “donate one kidney and bone marrow upon request.” Inmates must first pass a physical and forfeit all rights to appeal. (Reading: www.house.state.mo.us/bills98/bills98/hb1670.htm) SURVEY: The Detroit News surveyed its readers and found that 69% believe that doctors should not ease the current “brain death” criteria in order to harvest more organs for transplant. The problem: those pronounced brain dead are not really dead! (Reading: “Detroit News CyberSurvey Results,” www.detnews.com) physician-assisted suicide HEMLOCK: Faye Girsh, executive director of the Hemlock Society USA said, “Anti-choice groups are intimidating lawmakers, pushing doctors into illegal activities and causing more terminally ill patients to seek out Jack Kevorkian.” Pro-choice=direct, intentional human destruction. (Reading: “Hemlock Director Asks: More Oregons or More Kevorkians?” Hemlock Society USA press release, PR Newswire, 3/12/98) MICHIGAN: In a move aimed directly at Jack Kevorkian, both houses of the Michigan legislature have passed a bill making “assisted suicide” a felony. Gov. John Engler vows to sign it. However, the ban would not take effect until April 1, 1999. Kevorkian, meanwhile, is suing Southfield police to recover a “euthanasia device” confiscated from the apartment of 21-year-old quadriplegic Roosevelt Dawson, who took his own life. Activist Mark Pickup, who uses a wheel chair because of multiple sclerosis, wrote prior to Dawson’s death: “He, like me, must be lifted up as someone of value—even now when he no longer believes he has value, except in a sad and distorted attempt to donate his organs to others. Roosevelt Dawson is a human being. Treat him like a human being who is valuable for no other reason than he is a human being.” (Reading: untitled Associated Press articles, 3/11/98 and 3/12/98; “Paralyzed Student Becomes Kevorkian’s Youngest Patient,” Reuters, 2/27/98; letter to communiqué from Mark Pickup) zinger BODY BAG: San Francisco Chronicle columnist Debra J. Saunders takes aim at the latest marketing rage from the Culture of Death—a commercial suicide bag. For $30, the unnamed manufacturer will deliver a “clear, industrial strength” customized death bag, guaranteed to perform in such a way that it “takes the guesswork out of the use of plastic bags.” Saunders concludes her column with the comment, “They thought of everything—everything but the need to let sick people feel loved, valued, and welcome to stay as long as possible.” (Reading: “The Body Bag,” San Francisco Chronicle, 3/1/98 http://www.all.org/communique/cq980403.htm Out of a Coma, Into a Twilight Robert Wendland can toss and catch a ball and follow simple commands. The California Supreme Court will decide if his wife can order that his food and fluids be withdrawn. Los Angeles Times (1/2/01) DEAD LINK http://www.latimes.com/error/error.html Foundations Keep the Euthanasia/Assisted Suicide Movement Afloat Washington -- February 1999 -- Jack Kevorkian goes on trial this spring for murder, but convicting Dr. Death and tossing him into the slammer would only dethrone the assisted suicide movement's clown prince, not derail its efforts. That's the conclusion of a January report by the Capital Research Center, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank that tracks the giving of major charitable foundations. The report shows that while Kevorkian has stamped "right-to-die" activists with the enduring image of a crude contraption that delivers death-inducing chemicals into the veins of the hopeless, this movement stubbornly clings to life with the aid of big bucks from huge non-profit foundations. According to the New York-based Foundation Center, no grants by foundations focused on end-of-life/"right-to-die" policy in 1990. But by 1995, grant makers like the New-Land Foundation, the Greenwall Foundation, and the New York Community Trust reported shelling out more than $2.1 million earmarked for the promotion of assisted suicide and euthanasia. The most recent figures available show death-embracing foundations still pumping cash: In 1997, two organizations alone, the Open Society Institute and the Gerbode Foundation, were the source of nearly $1 million in grants for organizations promoting assisted suicide. Large donors also funnel grants through organizations like the Oakland-based Philanthropic Ventures Foundation (PVF) that are legally able to hide the names of grant recipients from public view. The CRC report said that a number of organizations, including PVF, refused to comment on grants to pro-euthanasia groups, indicating that the amount of cash flowing may be much higher than published figures show. As people become more accepting of physician-assisted suicide, there will be a lot more money out there," said Patrick Reilly, editor of Foundation Watch, a CRC publication that documents the activities of non-profit grant-making institutions. Such donations exponentially extend the reach and mainstream credibility of organizations like the pro-suicide Hemlock Society-a group that was once considered by most Americans to be on the creepy fringe. For example, it was in part a Gerbode Foundation grant that enabled the Hemlock Society to avert a 1997 voter challenge to Oregon's pro-assisted suicide Death With Dignity Act. That law, which permits physicians to assist the death of competent adults with less than six months to live, is now the legislative battering ram pro-suicide activists are using in their state-by-state assault on all laws preventing self- termination. In 1998, foundation grants funded the release by Oregon Death With Dignity and the Death With Dignity National Center (San Mateo, Calif.) of a national poll designed to hamstring a congressional vote on the 1998 Lethal Drug Abuse Prevention Act. A foundation-funded PBS special called Whose Death Is It Anyway? enjoys regular re-broadcast. Source: February '99 World Magazine Provided By: The Pro-Life Infonet, a daily compilation of pro-life news and educational information. To subscribe, send the message "subscribe" to: infonet-list-request@lists.prolife.org. Infonet is sponsored by Women and Children First (http://www.prolife.org/wcf). For more pro-life info visit the Ultimate Pro-Life Resource List at http://www.prolife.org/ultimate and for questions or additional information email ertelt@prolife.org http://www.euthanasia.com/found.html
mercy or murder OHIO: House Bill 354, known as the “do-not-resuscitate” bill, is dangerous. Physician Dennis Doody points out that “physicians and other health care providers would be prohibited by law from administering resuscitative treatment if the patient had made the choice to declare himself as a ‘do not resuscitate’ case.” (Reading: Testimony of Dr. Dennis Doody to the Ohio Senate Health Committee, 3/11/98; copies of this testimony are available from ALL) organ donations MISSOURI: HB 1670, the “Life for a Life Program,” is a bill in the state legislature that “allows persons sentenced to death to have their sentences commuted to life without parole” by participating in a program wherein they will “donate one kidney and bone marrow upon request.” Inmates must first pass a physical and forfeit all rights to appeal. (Reading: www.house.state.mo.us/bills98/bills98/hb1670.htm) SURVEY: The Detroit News surveyed its readers and found that 69% believe that doctors should not ease the current “brain death” criteria in order to harvest more organs for transplant. The problem: those pronounced brain dead are not really dead! (Reading: “Detroit News CyberSurvey Results,” www.detnews.com) physician-assisted suicide HEMLOCK: Faye Girsh, executive director of the Hemlock Society USA said, “Anti-choice groups are intimidating lawmakers, pushing doctors into illegal activities and causing more terminally ill patients to seek out Jack Kevorkian.” Pro-choice=direct, intentional human destruction. (Reading: “Hemlock Director Asks: More Oregons or More Kevorkians?” Hemlock Society USA press release, PR Newswire, 3/12/98) MICHIGAN: In a move aimed directly at Jack Kevorkian, both houses of the Michigan legislature have passed a bill making “assisted suicide” a felony. Gov. John Engler vows to sign it. However, the ban would not take effect until April 1, 1999. Kevorkian, meanwhile, is suing Southfield police to recover a “euthanasia device” confiscated from the apartment of 21-year-old quadriplegic Roosevelt Dawson, who took his own life. Activist Mark Pickup, who uses a wheel chair because of multiple sclerosis, wrote prior to Dawson’s death: “He, like me, must be lifted up as someone of value—even now when he no longer believes he has value, except in a sad and distorted attempt to donate his organs to others. Roosevelt Dawson is a human being. Treat him like a human being who is valuable for no other reason than he is a human being.” (Reading: untitled Associated Press articles, 3/11/98 and 3/12/98; “Paralyzed Student Becomes Kevorkian’s Youngest Patient,” Reuters, 2/27/98; letter to communiqué from Mark Pickup) zinger BODY BAG: San Francisco Chronicle columnist Debra J. Saunders takes aim at the latest marketing rage from the Culture of Death—a commercial suicide bag. For $30, the unnamed manufacturer will deliver a “clear, industrial strength” customized death bag, guaranteed to perform in such a way that it “takes the guesswork out of the use of plastic bags.” Saunders concludes her column with the comment, “They thought of everything—everything but the need to let sick people feel loved, valued, and welcome to stay as long as possible.” (Reading: “The Body Bag,” San Francisco Chronicle, 3/1/98 http://www.all.org/communique/cq980403.htm Out of a Coma, Into a Twilight Robert Wendland can toss and catch a ball and follow simple commands. The California Supreme Court will decide if his wife can order that his food and fluids be withdrawn. Los Angeles Times (1/2/01) DEAD LINK http://www.latimes.com/error/error.html Foundations Keep the Euthanasia/Assisted Suicide Movement Afloat Washington -- February 1999 -- Jack Kevorkian goes on trial this spring for murder, but convicting Dr. Death and tossing him into the slammer would only dethrone the assisted suicide movement's clown prince, not derail its efforts. That's the conclusion of a January report by the Capital Research Center, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank that tracks the giving of major charitable foundations. The report shows that while Kevorkian has stamped "right-to-die" activists with the enduring image of a crude contraption that delivers death-inducing chemicals into the veins of the hopeless, this movement stubbornly clings to life with the aid of big bucks from huge non-profit foundations. According to the New York-based Foundation Center, no grants by foundations focused on end-of-life/"right-to-die" policy in 1990. But by 1995, grant makers like the New-Land Foundation, the Greenwall Foundation, and the New York Community Trust reported shelling out more than $2.1 million earmarked for the promotion of assisted suicide and euthanasia. The most recent figures available show death-embracing foundations still pumping cash: In 1997, two organizations alone, the Open Society Institute and the Gerbode Foundation, were the source of nearly $1 million in grants for organizations promoting assisted suicide. Large donors also funnel grants through organizations like the Oakland-based Philanthropic Ventures Foundation (PVF) that are legally able to hide the names of grant recipients from public view. The CRC report said that a number of organizations, including PVF, refused to comment on grants to pro-euthanasia groups, indicating that the amount of cash flowing may be much higher than published figures show. As people become more accepting of physician-assisted suicide, there will be a lot more money out there," said Patrick Reilly, editor of Foundation Watch, a CRC publication that documents the activities of non-profit grant-making institutions. Such donations exponentially extend the reach and mainstream credibility of organizations like the pro-suicide Hemlock Society-a group that was once considered by most Americans to be on the creepy fringe. For example, it was in part a Gerbode Foundation grant that enabled the Hemlock Society to avert a 1997 voter challenge to Oregon's pro-assisted suicide Death With Dignity Act. That law, which permits physicians to assist the death of competent adults with less than six months to live, is now the legislative battering ram pro-suicide activists are using in their state-by-state assault on all laws preventing self- termination. In 1998, foundation grants funded the release by Oregon Death With Dignity and the Death With Dignity National Center (San Mateo, Calif.) of a national poll designed to hamstring a congressional vote on the 1998 Lethal Drug Abuse Prevention Act. A foundation-funded PBS special called Whose Death Is It Anyway? enjoys regular re-broadcast. Source: February '99 World Magazine Provided By: The Pro-Life Infonet, a daily compilation of pro-life news and educational information. To subscribe, send the message "subscribe" to: infonet-list-request@lists.prolife.org. Infonet is sponsored by Women and Children First (http://www.prolife.org/wcf). For more pro-life info visit the Ultimate Pro-Life Resource List at http://www.prolife.org/ultimate and for questions or additional information email ertelt@prolife.org http://www.euthanasia.com/found.html
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