In response to the following from "Mario Goveia" <[email protected]>
'report of horror stories coming out of countries with socialized medicine' [1[ Rosemary Munkenbeck says her father Eric Troake, who entered hospital after suffering a stroke, had fluid and drugs withdrawn and she claims doctors wanted to put him on morphine until he passed away under a scheme for dying patients called the Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP). [2] Doctors left a premature baby to die because he was born two days too early, His devastated mother claimed yesterday. Sarah Capewell begged them to save her tiny son, who was born just 21 weeks and five days into her pregnancy - almost four months early. "Ivo da C.Souza" <[email protected]> wrote: The Church is clear about euthanasia and eugenics. Dear Fr. Ivo, May I request you to please advise me the following: 1: On what basis do you believe that either euthanasia or eugenics was/were involved in the above cases? 2: What would you do wrt the second case? 3: What experience to have wrt a case of the second type? 4: If the Church is so clear about Eugenics, What was its position wrt Angela Carder - a case which turned US law on its head wrt the forced treatment of pregnant women. sincerely jc The Case Summary (I will send you the entire case + judgements -it is about 98 pages long) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11648191 additional information: http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2009/05/15/notre-dames-commencement-speaker-a-perfect-choice-promote-culture-life Twenty-two years ago this June, when a District of Columbia court ordered 27 year-old Angela Carder to undergo cesarean surgery against her wishes, she said: "I don't want it done. I don't want it done." The unborn child who the surgery was intended to save survived for just two hours. Carder died two days later with the cesarean listed as a contributing factor. In the highly publicized appeal that followed, and that reversed the order, only two groups defended the forced surgery: one was the United Catholic Conference -- now known as the USCCB. While the USCCB defended the forced surgery that contributed to a pregnant woman's death as "the correct choice," it vigorously opposed removing Terri Schiavo's feeding tube because it would lead to her death. Terri Schiavo who was not pregnant had suffered irreversible brain damage and had been in a persistent vegetative state for 15 years. Experts who examined her concluded that she had no consciousness whatsoever, and that there were no treatments that could possibly improve or reverse her condition. Nevertheless, according to the USCCB, Schiavo's condition was anything but futile, describing her as someone with "cognitive disabilities." The USCCB rejected the notion "that there are some lives that aren't worth living."
