Friday, July 17, 2009

A Little Matter of Ethics

A 66 year old woman from Italy sold her home to pay for the trip to the USA and have invitro fertilization. She ultimately delivered twins. Then she died two years later. No idea what happened to the babies...

The fertility doctor that impregnated her took her word that she was 55 and never bothered to verify it. He needs to lose his medical license and pay for the support of the twins and any other children he helped to procreate in senior citizens.

What's wrong with the medical profession, anyway? All the noise about "healthcare reform" while invitros are being done on the Italian lady and the Octo-mom at the same time millions of babies are killed every year is making me sick. What ever happened to the Hippocratic Oath? "First, do no harm," was the guiding philosophy at one time. Now the philosophy is "charge a fortune and do as much harm as possible."

How about reforming healthcare by refusing to treat illegals (except for extreme emergencies), no more abortions, and invitro for only those who are young enough to raise the babies? Not to mention invitro that results in 14 kids for a welfare mother, many of whom have medical and developmental problems that will ultimately cost the tax payers a bundle for the rest of the children's lives.

I'm not suggesting that we require more government intervention, except the passage of ethics reform, and that should come from the medical community. In Massachusetts, for example, people over a certain age are denied dialysis. Other life-saving treatments are regulated to conform to some bureaucrat's idea of who is worth saving and who is not. Talk about a eugenics program, huh?

Remember when B.O. (B.S.) was talking about his "white grandmother" who died shortly before the election? She was diagnosed as terminal, and still had hip replacement surgery shortly before she passed on. He talked about our healthcare system being bad and how we need European methods to "fix" it. European methods would have included refusing her any treatment for the terminal illness and not giving her the hip replacement. But that's what he wants? Of course, just not for his own family.

2 comments:

  1. There are three groups of people that are at high risk of being eliminated in America, Unborn, the elderly, and republicans.

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  2. We'd be those "undesirable" groups that Margaret Sanger, Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Mr. Holdern want society to be rid of, then, Lester. Funny, though, how they're aborting and euthanising themselves out of existence, isn't it? Given enough time, there may not be any liberals left...

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