Monday, February 13, 2012

Who Needs Death Panels When We Have Bioethicists?

Who Needs Death Panels When We Have Bioethicists?

The topic of death panels–essentially, Obamacare bureaucrats deciding whether an individual should live or not–has died down somewhat but there’s a new buzz buzzing which could make them redundant.

President Barack Hussein Obama and his minions refused to concede that Obamacare incorporated death panels, just as they denied abortion services would be a feature of the new health care law, and Sarah Palin and others were lambasted and ridiculed for suggesting those ideas.

Now, two bioethicists–scholars who study and propound on contemporary scientific and medical ethical controversies, are advocating theories which are even more outrageous than death panels: harvesting the organs of living but seriously disabled human beings.

Nothing is surprising anymore in America’s thriving culture of death.

In an article titled, “What Makes Killing Wrong?” in the January 2012 edition of the Journal of Medical Ethics, bioethicists Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Franklin G. Miller posit that death is morally indistinguishable from total disability and thus it is not immoral to use the disabled as organ farms. . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=12997.)

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