February 14, 2014 ↔ 6 comments
NPR Gushes Over Prospect Of Euthanasia In U.S.

B. Christopher Agee

In his response to a recent Pennsylvania court decision on the issue, NPR reporter Richard Knox offered his implicit endorsement of killing off the elderly in a blog on the network’s website.

The case in question involved a nurse who faced homicide charges for giving her father morphine. A judge dismissed the case against her; and, in Knox’s opinion, that decision has paved the way for euthanasia on a much broader scale in this country.

Just as the pro-abortion crowd covers the murderous act’s implications by using terms like “choice” and “family planning, “Knox used similarly noncommittal language to express his support of this practice.

]He cited the “reluctance of courts and state legislatures to criminalize medical care that may hasten death.”

Of course, such “medical care” could be carried out just as effectively by a firing squad; but he continues to drive home his point by heralding the fact that “attitudes about end-of-life care are changing, whatever most statutes say.”

Included in his article is a defense by Compassion and Choices spokesperson Mickey MacIntyre, who advocates for the right of individuals to kill under certain circumstances.

“This case demonstrates that the government has no business interfering in families’ end-of-life decisions,” MacIntyre contended in a statement quoted by Knox. He went on to conclude that an alternate outcome “could have chilled end-of-life decisions” for other Americans.

Radical leftists are not only obsessed with death; they insist on being the deciding factor in when life both begins and ends. Pro-abortion activists declare life doesn’t begin until after whatever arbitrary deadline they impose including, in the eyes of some extremists, well after a child is born.

The same outrageous arguments are embraced on the other end of the life cycle by those who believe they know best when a life should end. Unfortunately, some of the nebulous mandates included in the disastrous ObamaCare law seem to give federal bureaucrats exactly that power.

Knox and his ilk are merely setting the stage for further government intrusion into the ostensibly inalienable right to life.

http://www.westernjournalism.com/npr...uthanasia-u-s/

Have they squandered all the money the boomers paid in and now that the debt is due, they can't meet it?