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Oregon's euthanasia bill awash with 'ambiguity'
onenewsnow.com
Oregon is considering a bill that could allow the intentional taking of lives, if those lives fit into a particular category.
"Its intent," Gayle Atteberry of Oregon Right to Life tells OneNewsNow, "is to allow Alzheimers, mentally ill, and dementia patients who are conscious and are able to eat and swallow, to be starved and dehydrated to death. It's a horrifying bill. I've never seen one like it before."
Alex Schadenberg with the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition makes similar arguments in a recent piece written for LifeNews.com.
According to Atteberry, individuals with those types of medical conditions aren't capable of authorizing the withholding of their own care. Concerned that passage of Senate Bill 494 would legalize what society has considered murder, Atteberry contends insurance companies are behind the measure.
"... We can only imagine the amount of money that is saved if Alzheimers patients who are not terminal… die [sooner]," she says. She is convinced it's money behind the movement to legalize euthanasia.
Doctor-assisted suicide, legalized in Oregon 20 years ago, provides the means for a person to take his or her own life. For example, patients in Oregon have been refused expensive treatments for cancer but offered less expensive pills to kill themselves.
Atteberry contends the bill now being considered is one more step down the road to euthanasia of disabled and ailing patients – the actual killing of innocent persons.
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