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Score One for The Good Guys – End-of-Life Choice Study Committee Bill Fails

picassistedsuicide27Last week an important vote was taken in the New Hampshire State House on SB 426. This bill would have initiated a study commission to discuss “end of life” choices. I am happy to say that SB 426 was killed in a New Hampshire State House by a vote of 123 – 174. One for the good guys.

Too many people are misinformed or ignorant regarding the “end-of-life” debate. It is important for folks to understand how end of life “discussion” in our State House could breed the right of euthanasia. We should not go there.

Last week, there was an article in “The Independent,” a British newspaper, reporting a 20 year old woman being allowed to euthanize herself because she had been sexually abused from the age of 5. Her so-called doctors believe her PTSD was “incurable” and so they support her decision to die. Now just think about that for a second. How could any medical “professional” possibly condone euthanasia for such a young woman? Granted, her emotional/mental challenges are painful and perhaps overwhelming, but do these doctors know, with any certainty, what the future might hold for her?  Since when are doctors in the business of killing?  Therapy, treatment, and time could prove healing. Is the only answer to die? We have clearly lost our way.

The truth is that the slippery slope of euthanasia began when we started to disregard life at its beginning – the pre-born. When we devalued life at one end of the life spectrum, we devalue all life in its full spectrum.  All the rules have been broken, so what is a life here or there? Certain lives are expendable , or so it seems.

When government decides to take up the discussion of “end-of-life care,” we know they are really talking about euthanasia. We should pay careful attention because once the discussions have begun about how we can kill more people under the guise of “compassion,” we could easily find ourselves so lost, we might never find our way back again.

Killing fellow human beings will never solve our problems. Human beings are flawed and every human being has challenges to overcome. But Life holds a divinity above all else. We must never allow our human condition, which is flawed at best, to make it acceptable to kill another human being at will.

We should always fight for life. We should never fight for death. Yes, score this one for the good guys.

 

 

Editors Note: The bill passed the NH Senate, and came out of the House Judiciary committee as ought to pass by a vote of 9-7.

Prime sponsors of SB 426.

Sponsors
Dan Feltes (D) Nancy Stiles (R) Larry Phillips (D)
Joanne Ward (R) Edward Butler (D) Joseph Lachance (R)
Martha Fuller Clark (D) Frank Kotowski (R) Linda Kenison (D)
Molly Kelly (D) Mel Myler (D) David Luneau (D)
Andy Sanborn (R)
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