Sign and share our petition opposing The Patient Access to End-of-Life Care Act (HB 8137) (petition link)
Our petition states:Dear Representative Jeffries and Representative Scalise,
I oppose The Patient Access to End-of-Life Care Act (HB 8137) that would force Americans to pay for assisted suicide (medically approved killing by poison) with their tax dollars.
I oppose assisted suicide and I vehemently oppose paying for medically approved killing.
Thank you in advance for upholding my conscience rights by not approving the use of tax dollars for killing.
Sign and share our petition opposing The Patient Access to End-of-Life Care Act (petition link)
The Patient Access to End-of-Life Care Act would end a ban on federal funding to help terminally ill people pay for medical aid in dying where it is currently authorized or will be authorized in the future.The Patient Access to End-of-Life Act is sponsored by Representatives Brittany Pettersen (D-CO) and Scott Peters (D-CA) and would essentially replace the Assisted Suicide Funding Restriction Act of 1997 which prohibited the use of appropriated funds for:
- causing or assisting in suicide, euthanasia, or mercy killing;
- compelling any person or entity to provide or fund any item, benefit, program, or service for such purpose; or
- asserting or advocating a legal right to cause or assist such actions.
The act is titled: The Patient Access to End-of-Life Care Act because the assisted suicide lobby intends to promote the funding of medically approved killing in conjunction with other end-of-life care, such as palliative care.
Based on the current political configuration, it is unlikely that this bill will pass, but it indicates the direction of the assisted suicide lobby and it makes the issue of medically assisted killing, which has essentially been a state by state issue, into a federal issue.
Oppose the Patient Access to End-of-Life Care Act. Don't let your tax dollars be used to kill people.
This is a load of complete rhetoric. I should be able to use my own medicare investment for the end of life care I want. I’ve contributed to Medicare for the whole of my working life.
ReplyDeleteThat’s not the way it works. You don’t get to dictate how “your investment” is used for your care. The law says it’s not for use in assisting suicide, and everyone pays in under that assumption. You can’t change the rules mid-game for this purpose anymore than you can for any other exempted purpose.
DeleteYou might feel differently when you are denied cancer treatment and offered assisted suicide again by Medicare.
DeleteCurrently federal law prohibits the funding of assisted suicide.
ReplyDeleteAssisted suicide/physician assisted suicide is ethically and morally repugnant. Unconscionable that the U.S. suicide lobby is advocating for medical murder using state and federal tax dollars. We have palliative care plans that should be addressing end of life symptom management. Tragically, millions of patients are being euthanized in our healthcare facilities and in their own homes.
ReplyDeleteWHERE ARE THOSE THAT CONTROL THESE PHYSICIANS?
ReplyDeleteARE NURSES COMPLICINT WITH THESE PHYSICIANS?
ANY ATTORNEYS AVAILABLE FOR CONSULT?
Can Canadians sign American petitions, if they're not paying taxes there?
ReplyDeleteAs a Canadian, I don’t understand. Our MAiD is considered a medical procedure that is paid from the healthcare funds that are annually transferred to the provinces. Are the eleven states that allow assisted dying (providing the drugs, no injections) not classifying the process as a medical procedure including in Medicare? How are the costs paid now? Are the people requesting the procedure having to individually pay …. in advance?
ReplyDeleteThe greatest human rights atrocities have occured when people have chosen death, as in killing people, over life. To put it into perspective, this is Governments using tax payer funds to actively kill people. Not the accumulative effect of medication given in pain relief that may inadvertantly shorten a life. Not the removal of extrordinary forms of treatement that have become futile, in keeping a person living, when all hope of a recovery has failed. Not the removal of active treatment when cure for the illness is no longer possible. This is the deliberate, intentional killing of a person by another person. Any person, in not having their needs met, whether in physical, mental, spiritual, or emotional, will in desperation, choose death to escape the pain of living.
ReplyDeleteIn working in end of life palliative care, I can honestly say, that when a person is given adeqaute care, they die in a peaceful, dignified, pain free, natural death, that some families have referred to as "beautiful." This is being misrepresented in frightening people into wanting to end their lives, which of course, is more cost effective for funding agencies.Those administering euthanasia also financially benefit.
Aside from all that, it robs people of a life they could be living with their families right up untill they naturally die.Quality of life, which is subjective, is spoken about, in making people think the intrinsic value of human life no longer applies. A person dying is to be cared for in the celebration of their life, not in the administeration of death that lessesns the humanity of all involved. Afterall, it is compassionate care for others that keeps people being human. Throughout history, we can see what happens when people think it is acceptable to kill other human beings, for any reason at all, even in them asking to be killed. If we have learned anything from history, it is that death grows in taking from people the chance to live life in being human. All the medical and healthcare professions were founded to help people to live. Do we really want to go back to pre Hyppocrates days, where they are permitted to kill people? Have we learned nothing?
This post is so eloquently, logically and compassionately stated!
DeleteWhere is the link or ANY LINK to this proposed despicable act? Thank you
ReplyDeleteCompassion & Choices.
ReplyDeleteWell said Roseanne!
ReplyDeleteAll life is. Sacred,.The Human body is. a healing machine ,if given the right thoughts. food ,feelings, beliefs.,.I have. healed myself I am 80 this. year ,have not had a dr for 40 some years.,at one point in my life I wanted to end. it, I AM. so great full I had someone who talked me out of it.,.now every day is. DIVINE.and I love. being Alive.,.please lets. stop assisted suicide and learn how. to heal ourselves,.,it is. possible.,Maggie.
ReplyDeleteMy brother-in-law, a minister, said God "soundly rebuked me." God told him he was never to pray for death -- only for life! God is the One before whom we all have to stand and give account some day -- believe it or not! You don't want to be on His wrong side -- believe me!!
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