Cerebral Palsy + DNR order = one pissed off Strapples
I'm glad that decision was overturned, as those "parents" probably agreed with Ebenezer Scrooge in "A Christmas Carol" when he said that "if they're going to die, then they had better do it and decrease the surplus population." At least in the story, Scrooge realized how awful that statement was, and eventually changed his ways.
It's a personal choice and I don't want any law forbidding people from making it. Laws tend to be blanketory and therefore not capable of taking circumstances of individual cases into consideration.
That said, I think the parents in this case may be f**ktards.
Most folks with CP are fully capable of communicating (if not talking). Someone should have asked the kid. Someone should go do that. NOW.
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That said, I think the parents in this case may be f****.
Most folks with CP are fully capable of communicating (if not talking). Someone should have asked the kid. Someone should go do that. NOW.
Sadly enough BuyerBeware she is DEAD now...
PISSED ME OFF THAT THE DNR STOOD IN COURT TO BEGIN WITH
This is why I propose the following FEDERAL LAW
VOID on All DNRs for people under or over 18 with a Non Degenerative Disease Who did not sign the DNR themselves <This will render all current DNRs for a person under or over 18 who did not sign the DNR themselves Null and VOID>
DNRs for people under 18 with a DEGENERATIVE or otherwise TERMINAL illness will be allowed per current state laws
DNRs for adults who did not sign the DNR but are over 70 shall continue and not be covered by the blanket ban
DNRs for Special Needs Adults who have a severe communication disability but are Non Degenerative or Terminal will require a small jury of 4 people and require a 3/4ths supermajority vote to enact the DNR. none of the people may be physicians or doctors or lawyers.
DNRs for Special Needs Children whom are Not Degenerative or Terminal will require a Grand Jury Hearing involving a panel of 12 impartial people and a 3/4ths supermajority vote required to enact the DNR. none of the people may be physicians or doctors or lawyers.
If for any reason a DNR fails to pass (reach the vote threshold) it may not be brought forth to the courts again until the childs 18th birthday or 1 year, whichever is longer. Exemptions are allowed if the patient becomes terminal or degenerative, at this point the DNR is to proceed with current state statutes.
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First, no one knows how long she might live. When he was ten, a doctor told my father's mother he would be dead by morning. After he survived, he was refused countless jobs, because he was expected to die at any time. Now, he's 86...
Second, given how many members of the medical profession were in the past involved in the eugenics movement, and how pervasive the "ethics" of that movement have become in the medical profession, I doubt the "best interests of the child" even entered their minds. Although of course they'd deny that; the defeat of the Third Reich and the horror of those who learned what had been done there taught American eugenicists the need for more careful PR.
I just found this thread now, and the whole idea of letting a little girl like this die is WRONG. She does not look as if she wants to die. And until she is old enough to understand and make that decision for herself, it is horribly wrong for anyone else to presume to do it for her. As far as I'm concerned, when they made such a decision, her parents proved that they were unfit parents. Period.
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PISSED ME OFF THAT THE DNR STOOD IN COURT TO BEGIN WITH
Oh, $h!t, I just found this thread, and I was wondering how she was. She's dead? I was crying before I even got this far.
They'd better find me in contempt of court now, because I have nothing but utter, total contempt and loathing for any court system that would permit this travesty of justice to stand. In hell, Goebbels and Hitler and the rest of them are cheering that judge, pleased with his decision. And I know of nothing worse to say of anyone than to say that those monsters would approve of what they're doing.
NEVER AGAIN! TO HELL WITH EUGENICS!
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I am so furious I had to come back and say one other thing...
Whoever that doctor is, I'd like to get my hands on his medical license and vaporise it. Perhaps a nuclear device would do a good enough job of destroying it, although I'm not sure. Either way, it does not deserve to exist. He is not fit to treat cockroaches, let alone human beings. I hold my cats' vets to a higher standard than that...
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totally on your side TheWanderer. do you like my idea for the new federal law which would be named the Katie Jones Act
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Of course I like it. I have no idea why this isn't a law already, but it ought to be. I'd vote for anybody who backed this, if it came to that.
I like the line in your signature about Autism Speaks, by the way. Before I figured out I was on the spectrum, I came across one of their videos, where this blonde woman was saying - right in front of her daughter - that if she didn't have a "normal" daughter, too, she would have packed her autistic daughter into the car and driven off a bridge. And she encouraged her daughter to say how she hated her sister... I remember that video because it really shook me up; it was like an updated Nazi propaganda film designed to show how horrible and useless the people were they wanted to kill. It's all the same crap, really. Everybody is human. Everybody should have human rights. Anyone or anything that opposes that, I'm opposed to.
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Of course I like it. I have no idea why this isn't a law already, but it ought to be. I'd vote for anybody who backed this, if it came to that.
I like the line in your signature about Autism Speaks, by the way. Before I figured out I was on the spectrum, I came across one of their videos, where this blonde woman was saying - right in front of her daughter - that if she didn't have a "normal" daughter, too, she would have packed her autistic daughter into the car and driven off a bridge. And she encouraged her daughter to say how she hated her sister... I remember that video because it really shook me up; it was like an updated Nazi propaganda film designed to show how horrible and useless the people were they wanted to kill. It's all the same crap, really. Everybody is human. Everybody should have human rights. Anyone or anything that opposes that, I'm opposed to.
Autism Speaks if they COULD would start a whole EUGENIC movement and start GASSING us to death... NAZI CONCENTRATION CAMP STYLE. HITLER STYLE.. I swear Autism Speaks is THE WORST.
Now as far as this law I am going to push it up to my senators and congress. hopefully there it can become a bill.
maybe we should start an online petition to garner figure 50,000 signatures then send it off to congress, then that will definitely gain traction and media attention.
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That's.... kind of scary actually. Under the age of 18, DNR's should NOT be valid, and they should ONLY be valid if the person files the order for themselves (or makes it know they consent in a court of law).
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this is why i propose a bill for congress
Katie Jones Act
VOID on All DNRs for people under or over 18 with a Non Degenerative Disease Who did not sign the DNR themselves <This will render all current DNRs for a person under or over 18 who did not sign the DNR themselves Null and VOID Federally>
DNRs for people under 18 with a DEGENERATIVE or otherwise TERMINAL illness will be allowed per current state laws
DNRs for adults who did not sign the DNR but are over 70 shall continue and not be covered by the blanket ban
DNRs for Special Needs Adults who have a severe communication disability but are Non Degenerative or Terminal will require a small jury of 4 people and require a 3/4ths supermajority vote to enact the DNR. none of the people may be physicians or doctors or lawyers.
DNRs for Special Needs Children whom are Not Degenerative or Terminal will require a Grand Jury Hearing involving a panel of 12 impartial people and a 3/4ths supermajority vote required to enact the DNR. none of the people may be physicians or doctors or lawyers.
If for any reason a DNR fails to pass (reach the vote threshold) it may not be brought forth to the courts again until the childs 18th birthday or 1 year, whichever is longer. Exemptions are allowed if the patient becomes terminal or degenerative, at this point the DNR is to proceed with current state statutes.
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http://www.change.org/petitions/the-pre ... -on-dnr-s#
calling on the House of Reps and Senate And president to change the laws!
Sign, share, GO VIRAL
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Signed.
As for Autism Speaks, while I agree with you on what they'd do if they dared, I think they've learned people won't accept anything that open. So they're trying different, subtler tactics. If you haven't already, I encourage you to read War Against the Weak, by Edwin Black. It's a history of the eugenics movement in the United States, and it gives some hint how they went underground after World War Two, although it glosses over just how many leaders of Planned Parenthood had ties to the American Eugenics Society. Sadly, it also reveals how intertwined with eugenics even a seemingly benign pastime such as genealogy is. And I say "is" and not "was" advisedly. I was a professional genealogist, a member of the Association of Professional Genealogists. When I learned of these links, I suggested on their mailing list a change to the Code of Ethics barring any of us from taking part in such atrocities, as well as stripping those genealogists in the past who had taken part of any honours they had been given. In response, I was ridiculed, attacked, told it was "unimportant"... And I came to realise that at least some of the members were working on such things, which are now given the reassuring but misleading label of "health studies".
My point is, eugenics is still out there. They are still trying to kill everyone they see as "unfit". They are just doing it more quietly and subtly, and by doing so, they've managed to convince a lot of otherwise decent people who would be horrified if they confronted the reality directly.
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As for Autism Speaks, while I agree with you on what they'd do if they dared, I think they've learned people won't accept anything that open. So they're trying different, subtler tactics. If you haven't already, I encourage you to read War Against the Weak, by Edwin Black. It's a history of the eugenics movement in the United States, and it gives some hint how they went underground after World War Two, although it glosses over just how many leaders of Planned Parenthood had ties to the American Eugenics Society. Sadly, it also reveals how intertwined with eugenics even a seemingly benign pastime such as genealogy is. And I say "is" and not "was" advisedly. I was a professional genealogist, a member of the Association of Professional Genealogists. When I learned of these links, I suggested on their mailing list a change to the Code of Ethics barring any of us from taking part in such atrocities, as well as stripping those genealogists in the past who had taken part of any honours they had been given. In response, I was ridiculed, attacked, told it was "unimportant"... And I came to realise that at least some of the members were working on such things, which are now given the reassuring but misleading label of "health studies".
My point is, eugenics is still out there. They are still trying to kill everyone they see as "unfit". They are just doing it more quietly and subtly, and by doing so, they've managed to convince a lot of otherwise decent people who would be horrified if they confronted the reality directly.
Eugenics makes me sick, now spread the word of this thread and the petion all over the internet. this is something that needs to go viral.
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I assume you're obviously very much aware of the very strong link to Nazism and eugenics, although eugenics was not actually a creation of Nazism? I mention this because you're Jewish.
Needless to say, I very much support you in your quest for more reasons than one.