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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.

With the Supreme Court having a conservative majority, Roe vs Wade was overturned. As a result, it has reverted back to each State to regulate it. Conservative States outlawed it but liberal States have kept it. Planned Parenthood has been working to  make abortion legal in all States by pushing deceptive Amendments to State Constitutions that sound like they are limiting abortions but are putting in loopholes that allow them to perform abortions for any reason up to and including at birth. As a result, they have managed to get such amendments into conservative States preventing them from limiting abortions. Planned Parenthood has been expanding their facilities in States where it was still legal and are working to make them more accessible, such as facilitating transportation for those in need and expanding the use of telemedicine where the doctor interviews the client by teleconference and prescribes the medicine needed to perform the abortion. The doctor does not have to see the client face-to-face or supervise the abortion. As a result, the woman does not have medical supervision in the event of complications which could become fatal. As a result, death from abortions have increased although it is difficult to determine how much since coroners hide abortion deaths under ambiguous phrases. For instance a woman who died from an abortion was listed as having died from a perforated uterus. The cause of the perforation, which was an abortion, was only discovered when the family demanded more information. In addition, they are utilizing the liberal media to change public opinion about abortion to make it more acceptable. The church must continue to inform people of the importance of protecting life and the dangers of abortion.

Sanctity of Life While those supporting abortion say they are trying to protect women, recent reports indicate that women are increasingly getting abortions because the baby is a girl and they want a boy. It is well known in India and China where male babies are prized over girls, especially with the one/two child rule in China. Since they are only allowed one or two, they prefer a boy, and will often abort girl babies. However, we are now seeing an unprecedented growth in the practice of aborting girls due to preference for boys in Eastern Europe. Doctors in the U.S. and Britain are also reporting a growing number of girls being aborted due to a preference for boys. Hillary Clinton, on a trip to China, praised them for making abortion available for women there, ignoring the fact that many women are forced to abort a second or third child against their will under the one/two child rule and many will voluntarily abort girls if they come first and try for a boy. While those supporting abortion say their opponents are against women, their own policies amount to a war against girls (future women).

Debbie Wasserman Schultz head of the Democratic Party criticized a bill in Florida that would prohibit men from forcing their girlfriends to have abortions against their will. Apparently they believe a girl should have the right to choose to have an abortion, but she does not have the right to choose not to have an abortion. They feel men shouldn’t have any say if they are opposed to abortion and  should not be able to prevent a woman from getting an abortion if she wants one. However, they feel men should be able to force a woman to have an abortion if they want it and she doesn’t. Apparently all they care about is that she gets an abortion and they get paid. While the laws of every State require abortion providers to notify parents and Children’s services when a child seeks an abortion, they do not and encourage underage girls to not reveal their age so they can list them as over 18. By doing so, they can avoid reporting and parental consent laws. As a result, rapists, and those engaged in sex trafficking, and incest can bring the girls in and avoid prosecution, since Planned Parenthood doesn’t report the underage pregnancy and the abortionist destroys the evidence. It also allows Planned Parenthood to bill Medicaid since the parents might find out about the abortion if they were asked to pay for it or they billed the parent’s insurance company. Their goal is not woman’s rights as they claim, but what will profit them.

Most people do not know that Planned Parenthood’s ultimate goal from the beginning has been to stop the spread of the lower classes and racial minorities. Margaret Sanger, the founder, was very racist and a friend of Hitler. Planned Parenthood started in the inner-city areas by convincing Congress that funding birth control would save welfare dollars.  Planned Parenthood was originally against abortion but when abortion was legalized, they saw it as a new way to eliminate unwanted babies and a very lucrative new source of funding so they reversed their stand on abortion and began pushing it. With the Hippie talk of free love, they saw an opportunity to expand their services into the suburbs and began pushing the idea that kids were going to have sex anyway so they needed to be protected. Few suburban kids were sexually active previously due to the fear of pregnancy but Planned Parenthood pushed it as a way they could have sex and not have to worry about pregnancy.  However teens are not careful about taking them leaving them in high danger of pregnancy. As a result, the pregnancy rate among teens exploded. Planned Parenthood is now the largest abortion provider in the world. Many of their abortion clinics are in minority neighborhoods and abortions among Blacks are far out of proportion to their proportion of the general population. Many clinics are also on public school  and college campuses where they encourage kids as young as elementary school to enjoy sex and supply them with contraceptives funded by the government so they won’t worry about pregnancy, but don’t tell them about the high failure rate. Since then they have further increased their profits by selling the body parts of aborted babies. Recently they have expanded to push transgenderism in the schools to create gender confusion so they can profit off of gender altering drugs and surgeries. The vast majority of it is funded by tax dollars provided by politicians whose election campaigns are in turn heavily funded by  Planned Parenthood with money received from the government.

When a girl or woman is alone, pregnant, and scared, she needs someone to help her. Those who support abortion say they care about these girls and will help them solve their problem (they will get rid of an unwanted baby, for a price, but will leave her with a host of other problems). Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion provider, is supported by government funds, including Medicaid payments, private insurance, and private payments, as well as earnings from selling body parts of aborted babies. Their staff are well paid.  While they claim to provide women’s health care, they provide very little beyond contraceptive services and abortion. People in Right to Life pregnancy centers all over the U.S. provide a wide variety of women’s health services, yet they have very few paid staff and receive very little government funds to help them.  Many supporters show they care about these girls by volunteering their time and donating their own money to help these girls in need with support and assistance, free of charge and by donating things such as maternity clothes, baby clothes, baby furniture, baby food, and diapers, to help them if they decide to keep the baby, and help putting the child up for adoption if they feel that is the best thing for the child. They also provide a listening ear and work with clients to help them work out their problems. Support the Right To Life crisis pregnancy center near you by donating time and baby clothes and furniture, as well as financial help as you are able.