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Accepting Euthanasia is a Slippery slope. Dr Kovorkian started with those who were terminally ill and moved on to those who were only depressed.  The desire for death doesn’t always mean they want help dying. They may feel death would be a release but not want to do it. Safeguards are ineffective and often ignored. Accepting voluntary requests often leads to involuntary acts since outside pressure often prevails. It is often difficult to determine if someone is a vegetable? People who were thought to be a vegetable in a permanent coma have woke up and said they heard everything but couldn’t respond. Some woke up years later and returned to leading a normal life. Some who they thought were untreatable were  able to find treatment. Government-run health insurance programs pose a serious problem since decisions are based on cost-effectiveness without regard for the individual. A couple in England whose child was diagnosed with a critical disease. The government-run health board ruled he was not worth treating and ordered the hospital to remove his life support. The couple appealed to social media and hospitals in America  and Australia offered to take the child, but the government refused to release the child and removed his life support. He died shortly after.

Doctors in Canada euthanized about 15,000 people last year according to records. However, it is probably much higher as doctors don’t want to be known for killing their patients. Many are probably hidden like many abortion related deaths are in America. Mothers who die from botched abortions are often listed under innocent sounding titles like excessive bleeding from the uterus. It sounds innocent but hides the fact she was bleeding from a perforated uterus as the result of a botched abortion. Not all mercy killings are voluntary. For instance, there was a 61 year old man. The man was medically healthy but suffered from chronic depression. An Ontario court had recently struck down the requirement that the person have a terminal illness to be eligible for a medically induced death. The family was not informed of the fact until just before he was euthanized. When informed about it they begged doctors not to end his life, but they did anyway. Since chronic depression is often cyclical, there is no reason to believe that had he not been killed, the man would have changed his mind in a few days. Since socialized medicine rations health care based on whether the government board feels a life is worth the cost of the treatment, it approved ending his life because they didn’t feel that it was worth the cost of continuing to treat him. Our attention is constantly on abortion, but we often forget other issues like assisted suicide and mercy killing. Assisted suicide is assisting someone who wishes to die, while Euthanasia (mercy killing) is taking the life of one who is terminally ill or suffering, with or without their request.

President Biden shows his contempt for life. He commuted almost all of those on death row while pushing the killing of unborn babies. Most of those on death row are there for killing someone. A number of them are there for mass killings where they killed a number of people. God prescribes the death penalty as the punishment for taking a life, though spending a lifetime in prison may be a worse punishment then a quick and painless death. The murderer gives up his own life for the life he/she took. It also guarantees that the murderer will not commit additional murders, and is to serve as a deterrent to make people think seriously before they take a life. While individuals are not to take justice into their own hands, God ordained rulers to administer justice. Unborn babies have committed no crime, though they may be conceived through the sins of their parents in the case of rape, incest, or mutual consent of two unmarried partners.  Many are aborted for no other reason then they happen to be a girl and their parents wanted a boy or the baby was just inconvenient. However that is not the babies fault and not a reason they should be put to death.