Word: euthanasias
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...major case of government doublethink, Janet Reno put the federal seal of approval on Oregon's assisted suicide law Friday -- while maintaining that neither she nor the President were dropping their longstanding opposition to euthanasia. Reno was nixing recommendations from the DEA, which wanted to withdraw prescription licenses from Oregon doctors who give their patients barbiturates. That means the Death With Dignity Act, which has no opposition from the Supreme Court, will continue without interruption from the feds...
...Washington, it is likely to approve a one-year study on how to revive the old penitential practice of abstaining from meat each Friday. The bishops' pro-life committee wants the dietary regimen to serve as a silent protest against the "culture of death," especially legalized abortion and euthanasia. No meat on Fridays was long a strict church rule, observed by millions "under pain of sin." But in 1966, after the Second Vatican Council liberalized many other practices, POPE PAUL VI permitted bishops in each country to set their own dietary practices. But now Friday may once again mean fish...
...bright spot amidst all of this failed moralistic posturing is a beautifully executed subplot involving the terminally ill patient (Wright) and the nurse (Mirren) who is eventually moved to help him end his life. A strong short film on euthanasia could have been made out of this storyline, but it only goes to waste here...
Another argument Balch posed against euthanasia is the fear it instills in the elderly...
...Dead Yet members agreed that the elderly are another group susceptible to euthanasia propositions and pressures...