"AB 2747 allows a physician assistant or a nurse to opine that a patient is 'terminal,' and then push for unnatural death by 'palliative sedation,'" said Randy Thomasson, chief of the Campaign for Children and Families shortly after the vote.
"Depressed patients who succumb to this pressure will be drugged unconscious and die from dehydration, usually within five to 10 days. Nothing in the bill prohibits this horror," he said.
Forty-two Democrats in California voted in favor of the plan: 30 Republicans and two Democrats opposed the plan.
But the final bill "is broad enough to easily include these suicide techniques," Thomasson said.
"The bill does not otherwise attempt to expressly define terminal illness that each of these health care professionals would have to diagnose to trigger the offer of counseling end of life options..."
"Total sedation (TS) – called by some 'terminal sedation,' 'palliative sedation,' or 'slow euthanasia' – is a protocol recently added to the lexicon of contemporary medical interventions and is a construct actively promulgated by the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO)," wrote Dr. Howard M. Ducharme, past chair of the philosophy department at the University of Akron.
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re: "California plans"....and eugenics
The 'plans' are being followed. Coming down the well worn path of achieving the end goal by incremental change through subtle variations of language along with professional endorsements, the Brave New World eugenicists are attempting to once again push back the boundary lines of decency and of the sanctity of human life. "Total sedation" becomes the ridiculous euphemism for putting someone to death, and is then marketed as an acceptable if not desirable medical technique through the "contemporary" professional journals and various affiliated organizations.
*From Wikipedia, some basic ideas on Eugenics:
"Eugenics is a social philosophy which advocates the improvement of human hereditary traits through various forms of intervention.[2] Throughout history, eugenics has been regarded by its various advocates as a social responsibility, an altruistic stance of a society, meant to create healthier, stronger and/or more intelligent people, to save resources, and lessen human suffering."
"Historically, a minority of eugenics advocates have used it as a justification for state-sponsored discrimination, forced sterilization of persons deemed genetically defective, and the killing of institutionalized populations."
"Eugenicists advocate specific policies that (if successful) they believe will lead to a perceived improvement of the human gene pool." ---------------------------------------
The AB2747 California bill is being used to push the envelope to achieve the end goal of the globalist self-proclaimed elite, which would be something along the lines of the delusional idea of reaching the so-called next stage of human evolution. Recreating the human species and achieving immortality through 'enhancement' is the general idea being pursued. This would essentially result in two separate classes of 'humans', which then unfortunately leaves no place for the unenhanced 'natural' humans in their grand futuristic scheme of things. This movement is called "transhumanism" and it is VERY BIG with the powerful and the 'intellectual' types. (for info on 'enhancement' and transhumanism see: "ye shall be as gods"...Not!) It wasn't too many years ago that people were shocked when Ellen DeGeneres had a new television show in which she played the part of a openly homosexual woman. Can't remember the name of the show but it was a first for the American public, and was effective in that it began the 'normalization process' of homosexuality in the minds of the undiscerning masses. Does anybody need to be reminded that DeGeneres was legally 'homosexually-married' a couple of weeks ago in California. This 'eugenics agenda' is following the same successful strategy of the homosexuals, continually inching toward the goal. The fate of this particular bill is uncertain, and the wording is vague, but ground is being gained and this sort of thing will become much more prevalent. Watch and see...Rev. 18:4
All told, here is compelling further indication of the 'lateness of the hour' in which we are living, the reprobate condition of rebellious men, and the return of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ as the ONLY hope for mankind. Rom. 10:13 -------------------------------------------------
"For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?" 1 Cor. 1:19-20