Oregon Bill Legalizes Starving Dementia Patients
Oregon law mandates that healthcare providers give food and water to all conscious patients, who can receive it naturally such as by spoon feeding. SB 494, which is currently in the Senate Judiciary Committee, would remove this mandate for patients suffering from dementia and other mental illnesses. It does so by removing current safeguards that prohibit surrogates from withholding ordinary food and water from conscious patients with conditions that don’t allow them to make decisions about their own care. . . .
SB 494 would remove this safeguard and allow for the starvation and dehydration of such patients at the request of a legal guardian or by third parties if guardianship was lacking. The law would also appoint a committee of unelected officials and give them the power to make future changes to advanced medical directives without oversight or approval by the Oregon Legislature. Many fear this provision would result in a rapid erosion of patients' rights under the strong lobby of insurance companies.
Oregon already allows IVs and feeding tubes to be withdrawn from otherwise viable patients at the request of guardians and third parties. This causes horrible death by dehydration over a matter of days. SB 494 would extend that gruesome prerogative to include cases of "spoon feeding" of conscious patients, who are mentally incompetent.
Oregon Bill
Oregon law mandates that healthcare providers give food and water to all conscious patients, who can receive it naturally such as by spoon feeding. SB 494, which is currently in the Senate Judiciary Committee, would remove this mandate for patients suffering from dementia and other mental illnesses. It does so by removing current safeguards that prohibit surrogates from withholding ordinary food and water from conscious patients with conditions that don’t allow them to make decisions about their own care. . . .
SB 494 would remove this safeguard and allow for the starvation and dehydration of such patients at the request of a legal guardian or by third parties if guardianship was lacking. The law would also appoint a committee of unelected officials and give them the power to make future changes to advanced medical directives without oversight or approval by the Oregon Legislature. Many fear this provision would result in a rapid erosion of patients' rights under the strong lobby of insurance companies.
Oregon already allows IVs and feeding tubes to be withdrawn from otherwise viable patients at the request of guardians and third parties. This causes horrible death by dehydration over a matter of days. SB 494 would extend that gruesome prerogative to include cases of "spoon feeding" of conscious patients, who are mentally incompetent.
Oregon Bill
Toledo Pastor of Abundant Life Ministries, 2nd Man
Arrested by FBI, Accused of Child Sex Trafficking
"A Toledo pastor and another man were arrested today by the FBI and held without bond on accusations they were involved in the sex trafficking of children.
The Rev. Cordell Jenkins, 46, and Anthony Haynes, 37, were taken into custody early today at their Toledo residences without incident, according to the FBI. . . .
Both Mr. Jenkins and Mr. Haynes are accused of knowingly recruiting, enticing, harboring, and transporting people they knew were younger than 18 years old to engage in commercial sex acts, federal officials said. . . .
Mr. Jenkins is also being charged with sexual exploitation of children while Mr. Haynes is being charged with obstruction of justice." Blade
Pro-Abortion Writer Admits Life Begins Before Birth
Pro-abortion author Katie Roiphe admits that abortion kills a life, and people know it: "The idea that 'life begins at birth' is useful politically, but as many have pointed out, in the age of sonograms, of cloudy little hands and feet coming into focus at nine weeks, how many people actually believe it?
Our language betrays our desire. A cluster of cells that is wanted is a 'baby,' and one that is unwanted is a 'fetus.' One never hears excited parent-to-be referring to the 'fetus'; the leap of imagination from fetus to baby is so ordinary, so automatic, so universal that we cannot pretend, even in the realm of political expediency, that it is not so. We can't try to argue that some cluster of cells are not 'life' if we are, say, busy calling our own cluster of cells a baby . . ." NRTL
Pro-abortion author Katie Roiphe admits that abortion kills a life, and people know it: "The idea that 'life begins at birth' is useful politically, but as many have pointed out, in the age of sonograms, of cloudy little hands and feet coming into focus at nine weeks, how many people actually believe it?
Our language betrays our desire. A cluster of cells that is wanted is a 'baby,' and one that is unwanted is a 'fetus.' One never hears excited parent-to-be referring to the 'fetus'; the leap of imagination from fetus to baby is so ordinary, so automatic, so universal that we cannot pretend, even in the realm of political expediency, that it is not so. We can't try to argue that some cluster of cells are not 'life' if we are, say, busy calling our own cluster of cells a baby . . ." NRTL
Intellectually Disabled Person Is Less Valuable than Animals
In his apologetics for infanticide, Princeton bioethicist Peter Singer has used a baby with Down syndrome as an example of a killable infant based on utilitarian measurements. (He actually supports infanticide because babies–whether disabled or not–are, in his view, not “persons.”)
To Singer, moral value primary comes from intellectual capacities, and that means that developmentally and cognitively disabled human beings (also, the unborn and infants) have less value than other human beings, and indeed, a lower worth than some animals.
Were society to ever adopt Singer’s bigoted anti-human exceptionalism views, it would mark the end of universal human rights, opening the door to tyrannical pogroms against the most weak and vulnerable – you know, the kind of people that the Singers of the world deem resource wasters.
In his apologetics for infanticide, Princeton bioethicist Peter Singer has used a baby with Down syndrome as an example of a killable infant based on utilitarian measurements. (He actually supports infanticide because babies–whether disabled or not–are, in his view, not “persons.”)
To Singer, moral value primary comes from intellectual capacities, and that means that developmentally and cognitively disabled human beings (also, the unborn and infants) have less value than other human beings, and indeed, a lower worth than some animals.
Were society to ever adopt Singer’s bigoted anti-human exceptionalism views, it would mark the end of universal human rights, opening the door to tyrannical pogroms against the most weak and vulnerable – you know, the kind of people that the Singers of the world deem resource wasters.
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If Beyoncé’s Fetuses Are Babies, Why Not All Fetuses?
The expectant mother-of-twins has encouraged her millions of fans to talk about and celebrate her unborn children as if they were, well, children. At the Grammy Awards on Sunday, she appeared on stage pregnant and dressed as a goddess in a performance dedicated to “birth and motherhood.” What struck many was how Beyoncé and her fans on Twitter and Facebook freely referred to the twins in her womb as “children,” not fetuses or any other dehumanizing euphemism popular with abortion supporters. On Instagram, Beyoncé posed, hands on her baby bump, with the caption, “I have three hearts.” |
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Drowned Toddler Is Making Miraculous Recovery
After falling into a pool, little Joy Loboda did not have a heartbeat for 20-30 minutes. She should not be alive today, but she is.
Matt and Kristin Loboda, from Tampa, Florida, and their five young children were visiting family in Phoenix, Arizona. On Dec. 29, 2016, Matt suddenly noticed that his 19-month-old daughter, Joy, was missing. She had been with them just before that. “In my heart, I knew something was terribly wrong. So, I ran down to the Koi pond on the property. I ran around it four times looking between the shadows and fish for Joy. Momentarily I was relieved. But, [then] I heard the Holy Spirit tell me to run to the pool,” writes Matt on his Facebook page.
When Joy disappeared, Matt hadn’t considered the possibility that she was in the fence-encircled pool. He sprinted there, and the sight he saw was enough to make any parent’s blood run cold: there was Joy’s little, lifeless body floating on top of the water. Matt leaped over the five-foot fence and dove into the water, bringing Joy out of the pool, so he and his brother-in-law could perform CPR while they were waiting for the ambulance.
“As I breathed into Joy, I prayed that my breath would be the breath of God into her,” says Matt, a graduate of the Franciscan University of Steubenville. “In between breaths I begged for the Ruha of God to enter her. Her lips were blue, and her beautiful blue eyes were wide open. I could see her pupils shrinking at an alarming rate. Then I started to pray in between breathes in the words of Jesus, ‘Talitha Koum,’ which means ‘Little girl, I say to you, arise.' I knew we needed a miracle because I could actually feel her slipping away.” JOY (Joy's great-aunt is a member of HELP.)
After falling into a pool, little Joy Loboda did not have a heartbeat for 20-30 minutes. She should not be alive today, but she is.
Matt and Kristin Loboda, from Tampa, Florida, and their five young children were visiting family in Phoenix, Arizona. On Dec. 29, 2016, Matt suddenly noticed that his 19-month-old daughter, Joy, was missing. She had been with them just before that. “In my heart, I knew something was terribly wrong. So, I ran down to the Koi pond on the property. I ran around it four times looking between the shadows and fish for Joy. Momentarily I was relieved. But, [then] I heard the Holy Spirit tell me to run to the pool,” writes Matt on his Facebook page.
When Joy disappeared, Matt hadn’t considered the possibility that she was in the fence-encircled pool. He sprinted there, and the sight he saw was enough to make any parent’s blood run cold: there was Joy’s little, lifeless body floating on top of the water. Matt leaped over the five-foot fence and dove into the water, bringing Joy out of the pool, so he and his brother-in-law could perform CPR while they were waiting for the ambulance.
“As I breathed into Joy, I prayed that my breath would be the breath of God into her,” says Matt, a graduate of the Franciscan University of Steubenville. “In between breaths I begged for the Ruha of God to enter her. Her lips were blue, and her beautiful blue eyes were wide open. I could see her pupils shrinking at an alarming rate. Then I started to pray in between breathes in the words of Jesus, ‘Talitha Koum,’ which means ‘Little girl, I say to you, arise.' I knew we needed a miracle because I could actually feel her slipping away.” JOY (Joy's great-aunt is a member of HELP.)
Young Men Giving Up on Marriage: ‘Women Aren’t Women Anymore’
Fewer young men in the US want to get married than ever, while the desire for marriage is rising among young women, according to the Pew Research Center.
Pew recently found that the number of women 18-34 saying that having a successful marriage is one of the most important things rose from 28 percent to 37 percent since 1997. The number of young adult men saying the same thing dropped from 35 percent to 29 percent in the same time.
Pew’s findings have caught the attention of one US writer who maintains that feminism, deeply entrenched in every segment of the culture, has created an environment in which young men find it more beneficial to simply opt out of couple-dom entirely.
Suzanne Venker’s article, “The War on Men,” which appeared on the website of Fox News in late November, has become a lodestone for feminist writers who have attacked her position that the institution of marriage is threatened, not enhanced, by the supposed gains of the feminist movement over the last 50 years.
“Where have all the good (meaning marriageable) men gone?” is a question much talked about lately in the secular media, Venker says, but her answer, backed up by statistics, is not to the liking of mainstream commentators influenced by feminism. marriage
Fewer young men in the US want to get married than ever, while the desire for marriage is rising among young women, according to the Pew Research Center.
Pew recently found that the number of women 18-34 saying that having a successful marriage is one of the most important things rose from 28 percent to 37 percent since 1997. The number of young adult men saying the same thing dropped from 35 percent to 29 percent in the same time.
Pew’s findings have caught the attention of one US writer who maintains that feminism, deeply entrenched in every segment of the culture, has created an environment in which young men find it more beneficial to simply opt out of couple-dom entirely.
Suzanne Venker’s article, “The War on Men,” which appeared on the website of Fox News in late November, has become a lodestone for feminist writers who have attacked her position that the institution of marriage is threatened, not enhanced, by the supposed gains of the feminist movement over the last 50 years.
“Where have all the good (meaning marriageable) men gone?” is a question much talked about lately in the secular media, Venker says, but her answer, backed up by statistics, is not to the liking of mainstream commentators influenced by feminism. marriage
Late-Term Abortion Clinic in Ohio Loses Its Medical License
After Breaking State Law
The Associated Press reported that the Ohio Department of Health revoked the license of a Dayton-area abortion facility, Women’s Med Center, for failure to meet the department’s health and safety standards. The decision follows a recommendation made by a hearing examiner in early September. . . . Ohio law requires that all ambulatory surgical facilities, including abortion facilities, secure a written transfer agreement with a local hospital. If unable to obtain an agreement, the facility may seek a variance from the law. In October, the Department of Health denied the facility a variance for the fifth year in a row.
After Breaking State Law
The Associated Press reported that the Ohio Department of Health revoked the license of a Dayton-area abortion facility, Women’s Med Center, for failure to meet the department’s health and safety standards. The decision follows a recommendation made by a hearing examiner in early September. . . . Ohio law requires that all ambulatory surgical facilities, including abortion facilities, secure a written transfer agreement with a local hospital. If unable to obtain an agreement, the facility may seek a variance from the law. In October, the Department of Health denied the facility a variance for the fifth year in a row.
Euthanasia Deception Documentary Warns
About the Dangers of Assisted Suicide
CBC News Winnipeg reporter, Marianne Klowak published an interview with Kevin Dunn the co-producer of the
Euthanasia Deception documentary. Dunn was in Winnipeg to attend two screenings of the documentary.
Klowak reports in her CBC News interview:
"Kevin Dunn went to Belgium, where assisted dying has been legal for 15 years. He wants Canadians to understand the full ramifications of what it means to say ‘yes’ to assisted dying.
“Although the numbers here may show the majority of people want this, I don’t honestly believe they understand the full ramifications of what they are agreeing to. The most disturbing take away for me from travelling to Belgium is that people are asking for euthanasia and assisted dying and getting it at the first diagnosis of cancer or a malignant disease.”
In the documentary, medical and legal experts say there were tough stringent rules when Belgium first introduced the law but years later, they say more people are asking for assisted death and obtaining it for non-terminal illnesses.
Dunn interviewed a university professor who said his mother was depressed, not terminally ill and was granted an assisted death without his knowledge.
A father, Dunn also interviewed, said he was asked by a stranger on the street why he didn’t opt for assisted death for his severely disabled daughter. Dunn pointed out people under the age of 18 can apply for assisted death in Belgium with the consent of their parents.
Klowak writes that Dunn is convinced that people have not received both sides of the assisted dying issue:
Dunn says while the media has done an adequate job in documenting stories about people who opt to end their life, he says more homework has to be done on what is happening in other countries that have legalized assisted dying.
“Because we have to learn by history, other countries who have gone this path, and what happens to the survivors who are left behind after these decisions are made? Family members who are suffering because they didn’t know about the decision. While one person’s pain has ended, it has been transplanted to another generation.” Suffering
About the Dangers of Assisted Suicide
CBC News Winnipeg reporter, Marianne Klowak published an interview with Kevin Dunn the co-producer of the
Euthanasia Deception documentary. Dunn was in Winnipeg to attend two screenings of the documentary.
Klowak reports in her CBC News interview:
"Kevin Dunn went to Belgium, where assisted dying has been legal for 15 years. He wants Canadians to understand the full ramifications of what it means to say ‘yes’ to assisted dying.
“Although the numbers here may show the majority of people want this, I don’t honestly believe they understand the full ramifications of what they are agreeing to. The most disturbing take away for me from travelling to Belgium is that people are asking for euthanasia and assisted dying and getting it at the first diagnosis of cancer or a malignant disease.”
In the documentary, medical and legal experts say there were tough stringent rules when Belgium first introduced the law but years later, they say more people are asking for assisted death and obtaining it for non-terminal illnesses.
Dunn interviewed a university professor who said his mother was depressed, not terminally ill and was granted an assisted death without his knowledge.
A father, Dunn also interviewed, said he was asked by a stranger on the street why he didn’t opt for assisted death for his severely disabled daughter. Dunn pointed out people under the age of 18 can apply for assisted death in Belgium with the consent of their parents.
Klowak writes that Dunn is convinced that people have not received both sides of the assisted dying issue:
Dunn says while the media has done an adequate job in documenting stories about people who opt to end their life, he says more homework has to be done on what is happening in other countries that have legalized assisted dying.
“Because we have to learn by history, other countries who have gone this path, and what happens to the survivors who are left behind after these decisions are made? Family members who are suffering because they didn’t know about the decision. While one person’s pain has ended, it has been transplanted to another generation.” Suffering
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America’s Looming Demographic Winter:
Our Birth Rate is So Low It’s a National Emergency
Is America heading for a demographic cold snap? The fertility forecast is gloomy these days.
We’ve talked before on BreakPoint about the fertility crisis facing China, Japan, and much of Europe—all of which face what has been called a “demographic winter.”
Until recently, the United States has been an exception to this distressing trend, but this seems no longer the case.
To understand why, here’s a primer. Demographers use two numbers to measure fertility rates: the average number of children a woman gives birth to during her lifetime—that’s called the “total fertility rate”—and the number of births per 1,000 women, often referred to as the “birth rate.”
If the “total fertility rate” drops below 2.1 children per woman, a country’s population will shrink unless there are compensating levels of immigration.
And that’s what’s been happening in the U.S. since at least 2008. Our total fertility rate has dropped below replacement levels, but has been masked by high levels of immigration in two distinct, but related, ways.
First, immigrants replaced children that native-born Americans weren’t having. Second, immigrant women had higher than replacement-level fertility rates, which, as Jonathan Last of the Weekly Standard pointed out in his book, “What to Expect When No One is Expecting,” made our total fertility rate significantly higher than it would have otherwise been.
The boost from immigration, however, appears to have ended. According to the CIA’s World Factbook, our total fertility rate mirrors Sweden’s, Norway’s, and the United Kingdom’s, and is even lower than France’s.
And a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control suggests it may drop more. According to the report, the U.S. birth rate has dropped to an all-time low of 59.6 births per 1,000 women.
So what’s the big deal? Well, only economic catastrophe. Writing at The Week, Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry calls the record low birth rate a “national emergency.” And yet people are responding with a shrug. read more
Our Birth Rate is So Low It’s a National Emergency
Is America heading for a demographic cold snap? The fertility forecast is gloomy these days.
We’ve talked before on BreakPoint about the fertility crisis facing China, Japan, and much of Europe—all of which face what has been called a “demographic winter.”
Until recently, the United States has been an exception to this distressing trend, but this seems no longer the case.
To understand why, here’s a primer. Demographers use two numbers to measure fertility rates: the average number of children a woman gives birth to during her lifetime—that’s called the “total fertility rate”—and the number of births per 1,000 women, often referred to as the “birth rate.”
If the “total fertility rate” drops below 2.1 children per woman, a country’s population will shrink unless there are compensating levels of immigration.
And that’s what’s been happening in the U.S. since at least 2008. Our total fertility rate has dropped below replacement levels, but has been masked by high levels of immigration in two distinct, but related, ways.
First, immigrants replaced children that native-born Americans weren’t having. Second, immigrant women had higher than replacement-level fertility rates, which, as Jonathan Last of the Weekly Standard pointed out in his book, “What to Expect When No One is Expecting,” made our total fertility rate significantly higher than it would have otherwise been.
The boost from immigration, however, appears to have ended. According to the CIA’s World Factbook, our total fertility rate mirrors Sweden’s, Norway’s, and the United Kingdom’s, and is even lower than France’s.
And a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control suggests it may drop more. According to the report, the U.S. birth rate has dropped to an all-time low of 59.6 births per 1,000 women.
So what’s the big deal? Well, only economic catastrophe. Writing at The Week, Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry calls the record low birth rate a “national emergency.” And yet people are responding with a shrug. read more
Medical Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment (MOLST)
Legislation currently in the works as Ohio S. B. 165 is referred to as "MOLST", an acronym, for Medical Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment, is a Trojan horse Bill that would be more properly named Medical Orders for Life STOPPING Treatment. Just knowing that the formerly named Hemlock Society, a "right-to-die" group now deceptively named "End of Life Choices" is ramrodding the legislation, should leave no doubt that it is a bill that Christians must oppose. The Ohio Senate passed the bill this week by a vote of 30-3. The bill, now in House committee, awaits a vote. It will encourage medically vulnerable patients or their surrogates who are not required to have medical training to make critical care decisions Enshrining MOLST in law is a first step toward opening the door to where a "right to die" becomes a "duty to die."
Legislation currently in the works as Ohio S. B. 165 is referred to as "MOLST", an acronym, for Medical Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment, is a Trojan horse Bill that would be more properly named Medical Orders for Life STOPPING Treatment. Just knowing that the formerly named Hemlock Society, a "right-to-die" group now deceptively named "End of Life Choices" is ramrodding the legislation, should leave no doubt that it is a bill that Christians must oppose. The Ohio Senate passed the bill this week by a vote of 30-3. The bill, now in House committee, awaits a vote. It will encourage medically vulnerable patients or their surrogates who are not required to have medical training to make critical care decisions Enshrining MOLST in law is a first step toward opening the door to where a "right to die" becomes a "duty to die."
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