How is it that a nation that was populated by people with the Judeo-Christian ethic could go astray so much that the majority no longer recognize those things that are morally right and morally wrong? It did not start with the Schiavo scandal because the rot itself began in an earlier period - when the justices of the Supreme Court made an erroneous decision relating to abortion on demand. The principles of Roe vs. Wade set the nation of the USA onto the first rung of the slippery slope into oblivion. Every time the Supreme court has failed to overturn Roe vs. Wade, another step was taken on the rungs of the slippery slope. Out of that decision the world itself has seen what can only be described as an obscene push to kill as many unborn babies as possible because the lives of these babies are no longer held to be sacred, either in the eyes of other human beings, or in spite of the existence of God. That one decision in the USA was echoed in other countries such as Australia, Great Britain, Holland, Ireland (yes even Catholic Ireland has fallen into Satan's snare), France (a once great Catholic nation) and the list goes on. The judiciary in Australia was used to decide a number of similar cases, and instead of following the precedent of case law the justices of the Courts decided that they had the right to make a decision that did not fit either the law of the land, or case law precedent. These decisions have become all hallowed and enshrined as though they can never be removed for the bad decisions that they happened to be, and the laws that were also enacted as a result of Roe vs. Wade have likewise become enshrined in the minds of feeble-minded men and women who desire to continue with the foetal bloodshed. It seems that there is a rush to reach the edge over which the slippery slope becomes extremely steep for those countries that have been willing to walk the plank into oblivion.
It is within this framework that we start to see the renewed push for euthanasia on demand. The first part has now been quite literally fulfilled, for in some places abortions are offered as though the taking of a lfe is just some meaningless action, to which the doctor is firmly obligated without the exception of being allowed to object. It is within this framework that what had been an almost secret society began to get very vocal. Just like abortion on demand, there are some who are so vocal that they wil not accept no for an answer. It is for this reason that we see the rise of such illustrious criminal minds as Jack Kevorkian in the USA and Philip Nietzche in Australia. Whilst Kevorkian is serving time because of his actions, Nietzche has remained a free man. He has even gone as far as setting up shop in NZ in an effort to retain what he sees as a money spinning business. His victim, Nancy, was given the impression that she was dying from cancer. However, this woman did not have cancer at the time of her autopsy. So yet another very dangerous situation had developed in the world.
This world of death that is promoted through Planned Parenthood and other illustrious organisations. The hospice movement in the USA should be about helping the sick and dying to be more comfortable as they are dying. However, not everyone who ends up in a hospice is sick and dying. The system itself has been abused by those who want to get away with murder, through court sanction. In states such as Florida the sanctioning of murder via the courts has been on the increase. This is the very nub of the Schiavo scandal. The court system failed to take into account that the estranged adulterous husband had vested interests and reasons to force Terri to die in a way that is not even sanctioned for domestic pets.
One of the lame excuses for wanting this cruel execution to take place given by George Felos and Michael Schiavo happened to be that the removal of a feeding tube is something that happens to thousands of people every day. It is but a lame excuse because in the majority of those cases the people were dying and the continued giving of hydration and nutrition would not have been appropriate for their rapidly deteriorating condition. In Terri's case, since she was neither a carrot, tomato, potato or cucumber, it was not appropriate because she was not dying but was very much alive. In fact she was cognizant.
If the principle established in baby MB's case by justice Holman had been used in the Schiavo case, then there is no way that Terri would have been allowed to die. According to the written judgement in this case, if the person is cognizant and interacts with family members then that person has a quality of life. In such a circumstance the request to end the life can be denied. The proviso in MB's case (a very sick baby with SMA type 1.1) if the condition should deteriorate to the point where treatment is invasive, painful and will not change the outcome then doctors do not have to give the treatment. The difference here is that in the baby's case, if he has a heart attack because of his condition, the doctors will not have to use life saving equipment to prolong his life.
However, when Michael Schiavo first applied to remove his wife's feeding tube, he only did so when the Florida law had been changed in order to include feeding tubes as medical equipment. The argument that has been consistently used by Schiavo, that Terri made a non-existant request that she not remain hooked to machines, becomes even more nonsensical when one suddenly realises that a feeding tube is not the same thing as life support. The feeding tube gives nutrition and hydration, but life support consists of those measures that keep the heart pumping, the lungs breathing and the brain ticking over. A PEG tube just does not cut it as life support. If a very sick baby like MB was taken off the ventilator then he would die very rapidly because without the ventilator, he cannot breathe. On the other hand, Terri was left for 13 days of total agony as she lay there dying of starvation and dehydration.
The Schiavo line continues to be that Terri did not feel anything. His buddy George Felos had strenuously argued on the TV interviews that when the tube was taken away Terri would slip into oblivion and feel nothing as she quietly slipped away. That kind of talk was nothing short of an illusion. It was a smokescreen for the truth of the situation. A person who was nearing the end of a battle with cancer might slip into oblivion in that way, but a woman who was alive and vibrant was being condemned to a death that was encountered by the brave people at Auschwitz and the other concentration camps as they steadily defied the SS. This was the kind of death that was endured by St. Maximilian Kolbe, who was probably the last of the saints in his bunker to die of dehydration and starvation forced upon them as punishment for some crime against the Nazi prison guards. That form of argument was false when it was first stated and it remains false even though Terri is death. Thirteen days without water is totally horrendous.
However, once Terri died the way was open for others to try and kill the one who had become a burden because of brain injury. The case of Scott Thomas illustrates this point, and because this is still the subject of the courts it is best not to make too many comments about the complicity of the wife in Scott's injuries. For the moment, Scott's mother has custody of her son and she has been able to prevent him being forced into hospice, where the wife wants to do away with him. There has also been the case of Haleigh Poutre where the step mother and father had severely beaten Haleigh, at at the urging of her biological mother, the department who is in charge of her well being applied to the court to have Haleigh put down as though she were a dog.
On other fronts we heard about Mae Magourick from Georgia, where the grand-daughter used the rather glib statement: "It is time for granny to go home to Jesus". Sorry dear, but the only one who can choose the time for granny to go is God the Father. Only God the Father will decide who is in and who is out of favour and destined for the hottest place outside of the earth. ;-). It is not up to us to make this kind of unilateral decision-making. It is God's choice alone. The lady in question was wrong, and all Christian preachers who state that it is ok to think in this way are also wrong. They are not teaching according to what Christ taught all of us. Allowing a person to be starved and dehydrated to death on the grounds that the person should be allowed to go home to Jesus is just not a part of Judeo-Christian teaching.
It is within this framework that we start to see the renewed push for euthanasia on demand. The first part has now been quite literally fulfilled, for in some places abortions are offered as though the taking of a lfe is just some meaningless action, to which the doctor is firmly obligated without the exception of being allowed to object. It is within this framework that what had been an almost secret society began to get very vocal. Just like abortion on demand, there are some who are so vocal that they wil not accept no for an answer. It is for this reason that we see the rise of such illustrious criminal minds as Jack Kevorkian in the USA and Philip Nietzche in Australia. Whilst Kevorkian is serving time because of his actions, Nietzche has remained a free man. He has even gone as far as setting up shop in NZ in an effort to retain what he sees as a money spinning business. His victim, Nancy, was given the impression that she was dying from cancer. However, this woman did not have cancer at the time of her autopsy. So yet another very dangerous situation had developed in the world.
This world of death that is promoted through Planned Parenthood and other illustrious organisations. The hospice movement in the USA should be about helping the sick and dying to be more comfortable as they are dying. However, not everyone who ends up in a hospice is sick and dying. The system itself has been abused by those who want to get away with murder, through court sanction. In states such as Florida the sanctioning of murder via the courts has been on the increase. This is the very nub of the Schiavo scandal. The court system failed to take into account that the estranged adulterous husband had vested interests and reasons to force Terri to die in a way that is not even sanctioned for domestic pets.
One of the lame excuses for wanting this cruel execution to take place given by George Felos and Michael Schiavo happened to be that the removal of a feeding tube is something that happens to thousands of people every day. It is but a lame excuse because in the majority of those cases the people were dying and the continued giving of hydration and nutrition would not have been appropriate for their rapidly deteriorating condition. In Terri's case, since she was neither a carrot, tomato, potato or cucumber, it was not appropriate because she was not dying but was very much alive. In fact she was cognizant.
If the principle established in baby MB's case by justice Holman had been used in the Schiavo case, then there is no way that Terri would have been allowed to die. According to the written judgement in this case, if the person is cognizant and interacts with family members then that person has a quality of life. In such a circumstance the request to end the life can be denied. The proviso in MB's case (a very sick baby with SMA type 1.1) if the condition should deteriorate to the point where treatment is invasive, painful and will not change the outcome then doctors do not have to give the treatment. The difference here is that in the baby's case, if he has a heart attack because of his condition, the doctors will not have to use life saving equipment to prolong his life.
However, when Michael Schiavo first applied to remove his wife's feeding tube, he only did so when the Florida law had been changed in order to include feeding tubes as medical equipment. The argument that has been consistently used by Schiavo, that Terri made a non-existant request that she not remain hooked to machines, becomes even more nonsensical when one suddenly realises that a feeding tube is not the same thing as life support. The feeding tube gives nutrition and hydration, but life support consists of those measures that keep the heart pumping, the lungs breathing and the brain ticking over. A PEG tube just does not cut it as life support. If a very sick baby like MB was taken off the ventilator then he would die very rapidly because without the ventilator, he cannot breathe. On the other hand, Terri was left for 13 days of total agony as she lay there dying of starvation and dehydration.
The Schiavo line continues to be that Terri did not feel anything. His buddy George Felos had strenuously argued on the TV interviews that when the tube was taken away Terri would slip into oblivion and feel nothing as she quietly slipped away. That kind of talk was nothing short of an illusion. It was a smokescreen for the truth of the situation. A person who was nearing the end of a battle with cancer might slip into oblivion in that way, but a woman who was alive and vibrant was being condemned to a death that was encountered by the brave people at Auschwitz and the other concentration camps as they steadily defied the SS. This was the kind of death that was endured by St. Maximilian Kolbe, who was probably the last of the saints in his bunker to die of dehydration and starvation forced upon them as punishment for some crime against the Nazi prison guards. That form of argument was false when it was first stated and it remains false even though Terri is death. Thirteen days without water is totally horrendous.
However, once Terri died the way was open for others to try and kill the one who had become a burden because of brain injury. The case of Scott Thomas illustrates this point, and because this is still the subject of the courts it is best not to make too many comments about the complicity of the wife in Scott's injuries. For the moment, Scott's mother has custody of her son and she has been able to prevent him being forced into hospice, where the wife wants to do away with him. There has also been the case of Haleigh Poutre where the step mother and father had severely beaten Haleigh, at at the urging of her biological mother, the department who is in charge of her well being applied to the court to have Haleigh put down as though she were a dog.
On other fronts we heard about Mae Magourick from Georgia, where the grand-daughter used the rather glib statement: "It is time for granny to go home to Jesus". Sorry dear, but the only one who can choose the time for granny to go is God the Father. Only God the Father will decide who is in and who is out of favour and destined for the hottest place outside of the earth. ;-). It is not up to us to make this kind of unilateral decision-making. It is God's choice alone. The lady in question was wrong, and all Christian preachers who state that it is ok to think in this way are also wrong. They are not teaching according to what Christ taught all of us. Allowing a person to be starved and dehydrated to death on the grounds that the person should be allowed to go home to Jesus is just not a part of Judeo-Christian teaching.
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