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Paul Knutson • 7 years ago

Seems that 42% of evangelicals are out of sync with the Way, the Truth and the Life.

Bradley Williams • 7 years ago

I take exception to the polling.
I have found (serving 60 fair booth days) that about half of the public thinks they are in favor of such a law, that is until they learn about the flaws in the laws that create new paths of elder abuse with immunity. Once they learn that a predatory heir may steer the signup process and then forcibly administer the lethal dose without oversight, they all said, “I am not for that!”.
Anyway all of these Oregon Model bills have the same flaws that eviscerate flaunted safe guards.
For example how many times have you nodded your head when the proponents chanted that the lethal dose must be self-administered?
Well, read the language of the law/bill and you will find that there is no means provided to assure that marketing point.
The Colorado promoters of assisted suicide are guilty of false advertising. Their bills do not deliver as promised. If they are really supporting individual choices and rights they would provide an ordinary witness to the self administration of the lethal dose. Without a witness they are allowing forced euthanasia. I learned after caring for my wife's last 18 months of declining autonomy. I learned that you can work on 4 hours sleep. I am focused on how this Prop 106 is written, it's omissions and how it could be administered to my wife.
Colorado Prop 106 provides no ordinary witness to the “self-administration of poison”.
Even as the promoters have inundated us with their chant that the lethal dose “must be self-administered” and mentioned it 9 times in their 11 page Prop 106 they do not provide an ordinary witness to the act. That omission effectively eviscerates all of the so called safeguards. The difference between having a witness to "self administration" and no witness is that one honors individual rights and the other is non voluntary euthanasia. A promoter was once asked "why don't you just legalize euthanasia?" He said "the public is not ready to accept euthanasia."
The process seems to be full of requirements on the front end up until the script is written. Then an heir can pick up the script and administer it without oversight. Know that only 2% of the doctors have attended these events in other states.
Even the front end “requirements” have fatal flaws. A predatory heir may be a witness to the initial request along with a staff member of the facility. Does that sound like good public policy?
The rest of the family is not required to be contacted. And everyone involved gets instant immunity. The death certificate is falsified by this law which makes it impossible to prosecute a murder when the death certificate states the underlying illness is the cause of death. There really is no transparent reason not to post poison as the cause.
This bill Final #145 Article 48 provides that a predatory heir can facilitate the signup process, murder the individual and receive immunity all before the rest of the family is notified. This is neither reasonable nor prudent public policy. This is dangerous public policy that puts the entire population (all ages) at risk of exploitation by the medical-industrial-complex, organ traffickers and predatory heirs.

Guest • 7 years ago

It's a demonic deception that life is not worth living and that a good death is meaningless. God, bring our nation to repentance, starting with your people!

Chris Jackson • 7 years ago

As a Christian and a person who has lost loved ones from horrible illnesses and tragedy I can never agree with doctor assisted suicide. The Bible never justifies suicide. It does accept risking your life to save another person's life. If a person jumped on grenade to save others the Bible accepts that. It says "no greater love than to lay down ones life for another." That is because the intent is not to kill oneself, but to protect the other person. Any doctor assisting in assisted suicide is murdering another person according to the Bible.

EndTimesComing • 7 years ago

Said another way, if the poll is true, 42% of evangelicals are not actually Christians, and certainly not born again.

Anon Jones • 7 years ago

Pew research center states that 25.4% of the U.S. population is, by affiliation, Evangelical Christian. Remove the 42% and you are left with 14.7% of the U.S. population being "actual" Christians.