Will to Live, NOT Living Will

Some may ask if it is acceptable to sign a “Living Will.” Obviously, we cannot predict the future, or know in advance what form of sickness or disease we may be afflicted with in the years ahead.

We therefore cannot make decisions to accept or refuse
treatment before we even know the disease. Yet that is what
some legal documents try to do.

Not every medical treatment is always obligatory. But
to igure out which treatments are obligatory, morally
speaking, and which are only optional, one must know the
medical facts of the case. These facts are then examined in
the light of the moral principles involved.

Doctors are already free to withhold or withdraw useless
procedures that provide no benefit to the patient. Some
people fear that medical technology will be used to torture
them in their final days.

But in the climate of today’s culture, the danger is not
that you will have all kinds of treatments you do not
want. Rather, the danger is that you will not receive the
treatments that you do want.

Moreover, if the living will indicates one does not want
“to be kept alive by medications” or “artificial means”
what does that mean? An aspirin is “medication,” is it
not? Drinking through a straw is “artificial.” People can
construe meanings for these words which the signer of the
document never intended

Read more… http://www.priestsforlife.org/newsletters/v23n5sepoct13.pdf Will to Live, NOT Living Will

Hospitalization of abortion patients occurs weekly in West Virginia: hospital doctor

Operation Rescue staff

Wed Sep 04 15:57 EST

Abortion

Charleston, West Virginia (OperationRescue) – Abortion-related medical emergencies are occurring with alarming frequency, according to a West Virginia physician, who says he sees botched abortion patients “weekly.”

“We commonly (I personally probably at least weekly) see patients at Women and Children’s Hospital in our emergency room or our ultrasound center with complications from abortions at these centers in Charleston: so much for ‘safe and legal.’ These patients are told to come to our hospital because the abortion clinic providers do not have hospital privileges to care for their patients, so we must treat them as emergency ‘drop-ins,’” said Dr. Byron Calhoun, vice chairman of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department at West Virginia University. The statement was made in a letter he wrote on June 31, 2013, to West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey. The letter was made public by theWest Virginia Gazette.

“No other medical providers are allowed to care for patients, have no backup coverage, and then abandon them to the emergency room,” Calhoun wrote. “We would be held ethically and legally liable.

Dr. Bryon Calhoun

“The fantasy of women’s reproductive health care seems to allow these individuals who perform the abortions some special dispensation to provide substandard care.”

More: http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/hospitalization-of-abortion-patients-occurs-weekly-in-west-virginia-hospita

Yesterday, the Cleveland Plain Dealer published a review of a recent poll conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute (commonly referred to as “The Values Poll”). The poll asked Ohio voters about two issues: abortion and gay marriage.

While the Plain Dealer focused primarily on the issue of gay marriage, I would like to draw your attention to how Ohioans responded to the poll’s abortion question.

The Plain Dealer through a biased lens concluded from the responses, “A slight plurality (47 percent) believes abortion should be legal in all or most cases.”

However, if you look at the breakdown of responses, you’ll find that an overwhelming majority of Ohioans want some kind of restriction on abortion:

In fact, 76% of Ohio voters want abortion to be illegal in a given circumstance.

Undeniably, this news is encouraging: Ohio voters simply don’t want abortion-on-demand.  Whether they want a late-term abortion ban, a partial birth abortion ban, or even the increasingly popular 20-week ban, we can rest assured that Ohio voters have their limits when it comes to abortion.

Ed FitzGerald, the candidate for Ohio governor who is being billed as “100% pro-choice,” could not be more out of step with Ohio voters.  Ed FitzGerald’s 100% pro-choice position appeals to a mere 16% of Ohio voters.

Until he starts drawing a line and qualifying his position like the rest of Ohio, Ed FitzGerald will forever be 100% extreme and out of touch.

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15 of the Greatest Pro-Life Quotes of All Time
Life is beautiful. Here’s what some notable figures had to say about it!
1. “I’ve noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.” – Ronald Reagan

More: http://www.lifenews.com/2013/09/03/15-of-the-greatest-pro-life-quotes-of-all-time/

Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Martin Luther King Jr., Susan B. Anthony: All Pro-Life

by Steven Ertelt | Washington, DC | LifeNews.com | 9/3/13

Pro-life advocates continue to use the community forums on the popular web site Buzzfeed to promote the pro-life message. A new post today highlights how some popular political and social figures all have one thing in common: they oppose abortion.

Some of the well-known people in the post who oppose abortion include Susan B. Anthony, Gandhi, Mother Teresa, and Martin Luther King Jr. Others include former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, former President Ronald Reagan, feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, and Hippocrates.

More: http://www.lifenews.com/2013/09/03/gandhi-mother-teresa-martin-luther-king-jr-susan-b-anthony-all-pro-life/

Abortion’s ‘Invisible Grief’ Surfaces with Nationwide Gravesite Ceremonies

by Tom Ciesielka | Washington, DC | LifeNews.com | 9/3/13

Most people will acknowledge that losing a child is a terrible thing.

And that’s the focal point of the National Day of Remembrance set for September 14, 2013. This solemn event will memorialize tens of thousands of children buried at gravesites around the nation — a tiny fraction of the 55 million children killed by abortion since it was legalized in 1973.

Citizens for a Pro-Life Society, Priests for Life, and the Pro-Life Action League are coordinating this day to heighten awareness that every abortion results in the death of an innocent child, create an appropriate outlet for both personal and national grief, and pray for an end to abortion. Details on the event are available at AbortionMemorials.com.

The grief caused by abortion is an “invisible” grief — what grief therapy expert Dr. Kenneth Doka defines as “disenfranchised loss,” one not recognized or socially sanctioned and therefore not triggering the type of social support people normally receive at a time of significant loss. Post-abortion counselors attest that this grief is amplified by the message that abortion is a legally protected “right” to be celebrated by our society, leaving no room for mourning the loss of the aborted child. To admit that loss would require abortion advocates to acknowledge that a real baby is involved.

The National Day of Remembrance for Aborted Children is set for September 14 to mark the 25th anniversary of the burial of several hundred abortion victims in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Solemn prayer vigils will be conducted at the Milwaukee gravesite, as well as 34 other burial sites, as well as dozens of other memorial sites dedicated to the unborn victims of abortion. There are hundreds of such sites across the country.

More: http://www.lifenews.com/2013/09/03/abortions-invisible-grief-surfaces-with-nationwide-gravesite-ceremonies/

Opposing Creation of Three-Parent Human Embryos is Not Anti-Science

Washington, DC | 9/3/13 10:22 AM

What to say to your post-abortive friend

Denial: How the pro-choice side refuses to directly address abortion