Susan Martinuk on how the “private choice” of killing oneself impacts all of society:
So there it is — the classic left-wing argument against almost everything. Not based on facts or statistics, or what has happened in other countries, but on emotional narratives that are loaded with words like compassion, “I feel,” and claims of “my body, “my choice” and the ignorant and naive assumption that this “will only affect me.”
In sharp contrast, the reality is that giving individuals the right to die “on their own terms” has plenty of public implications. First of all, it involves the assistance of another and the assurance that society will not stand in the way. Therefore, it is very much a public, not private, act. By giving doctors the right to help their patients die, the legalization of euthanasia would also influence the kind of medical care that the rest of society receives. We currently have a medical profession that is dedicated to supporting life, and is not compromised by some within it who will happily help you to die. This is societal progress; in the time of Hippocrates, a healer/doctor could just as easily kill you as heal you, depending on the desires of those paying the bill.
We’ve witnessed how the abortion “choice” has impacted North American society and how it has devalued the lives of the young. Let’s watch how this choice, if legalized, will devalue the lives of the sick and the elderly.
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Wow. I had commented under that article, as had Suzanne Fortin and Alex Schadenburg (sp? he’s the leader of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition). All of our comments have disappeared, and all that remain are critical of Susan Martinuk’s article.
I know Facebook can be censorious at times, but this is the first time it has personally happened to me.