A new report from the Iona Institute stunningly is headlined, “Irish Medical Council lifts ban on doctors deliberately killing patients.”
And then it assures readers, “You have not read the headline on this piece incorrectly. In a huge and almost unnoticed change to the code of conduct that governs doctors in Ireland, new ethical guidelines from the Irish Medical Council no longer include a prohibition against the deliberate killing of a patient.”
The report documents that the ban on doctors “deliberately killing” patients is old-age, dating back to Hippocrates in Ancient Greece.
But the report explained a “new” code took effect January 1, in which the line, “You must not take part in the deliberate killing of a patient,” is eliminated.
The report explained it was in the “End of Life Care” section of the most recent, “Guide to Professional Conduct and Ethics for Medical Practitioners.”
It WAS.
“This line is now gone and has not been replaced by anything similar,” the report said.
“It seems perfectly clear what is happening. If the government legalizes euthanasia, the ethics code for doctors will no longer get in the way.”
It did explain that general practitioners were not consulted before the change was made.
“The new code makes other changes that are almost as bad. For example, it weakens the previous section on conscientious objection. In addition, it no longer forbids doctors from taking part in human embryo experimentation or in human cloning,” the report charged.
It warned, “The new code is a gigantic step backwards from an ethical point of view. No longer telling doctors that they cannot take part in the deliberate killing of patients is not medical ethics, it is the opposite.”
A report at the Christian Institute noted the council was coming “under fire” for its moves.
It reported, “The Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (RCPI) and the College of Psychiatrists of Ireland have both made clear their complete opposition to legalizing assisted suicide. They are urging parliamentarians to pursue excellence in end-of-life care rather than legalize assisted suicide.”
IMPORTANT NOTE TO WND READERS: For America’s ruling elites, nothing is more precious, wonderful and life-giving to their great cause than the Jan. 6, 2021 “insurrection” at the U.S. Capitol. It’s irrelevant that the events didn’t come remotely close to constituting an actual “insurrection,” or that both police and over 200 undercover FBI assets provoked the riot – which Tucker Carlson calls a “set-up.” Yet Vice President Kamala Harris still insists the minor riot was just as horrific as the 9/11 terror attacks and Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.
WHY are the elites doing this?
It’s not just because convicting, imprisoning, torturing and destroying the lives of hundreds of Trump supporters is meant to terrify and intimidate millions of Americans into submission. And it’s not just because activist judges and bureaucrats in over 30 states are absurdly trying to keep Trump off their state’s election ballots by citing the 14th Amendment’s prohibition against anyone who “engaged in insurrection” from holding elective office.
It’s because the elites’ destruction of America is so rapid, horrendous and obvious that they feel compelled to turn their opponents into monsters – or lose power at the next election. But that doesn’t mean just calling conservatives and Christians “racists,” “white supremacists,” “radical extremists” and “domestic terrorists” as they do continually. They know much more is needed.
Question: What if, far from being horrified by a half-baked riot they absurdly claim is worse than any domestic disturbance since the Civil War, the left actually LOVES the idea of violence on the right – the worse the better – since it perfectly serves their agenda? Increasingly, all the evidence strongly suggests today’s power-mad leftist elites not only intend to intimidate and discredit their political opponents by calling them terrorists, they mean to provoke actual violence.
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