Nevada Right to Life and the pro-life movement believe that every human life
is worth living and that something precious and valuable is lost when people
commit suicide. That’s one reason Nevada
Right to Life will be opposing a physician assisted suicide bill that NV
Senator David Parks has announced he plans to introduce in the Nevada
Legislature next year. Parks says the
bill “allows patients with a projected life expectancy of six months to request
a prescription for self-ingested medication to end life.” Parks also says it is
expected to
be modeled after Oregon’s physician assisted suicide bill.
While there are massive efforts to prevent suicide and give suicidal people
hope across America, there are many who believe the compassionate thing to do
for people with certain conditions is to allow them to have the assistance of a
physician to kill themselves. Instead of
trying to talk them out of killing themselves, when they hear people living with
or suffering under certain conditions say they are considering suicide, they
instead want to make sure that they are serious and know what they are doing. But ending the life of the sufferer is not
the answer to suffering.
This Monday March 17th at 1 PM
Nevada Right to Life speaks with assisted suicide expert Brian Johnston on 1550
AM KXTO in Reno on the Nevada Right to Life show. Johnston is the Executive
Director of the California Pro-Life Council and the author of “Death as a Salesman-What’s wrong
with assisted suicide.” Brian and the CA
Pro-life Council have been coalition leaders to prevent assisted suicide from
becoming law in CA three times. We’ll
talk with Johnston about what is wrong with assisted suicide and the dangers of
the Oregon law Parks would model his legislation after.
At a recent public meeting, Nevada Right to Life President Melissa Clement
and I noted that the disability community opposes assisted suicide. That’s because it makes targets out of
them. When society agrees that certain
conditions should allow certain people to kill themselves, it is not a long
step to thinking that people with those conditions would be better off dead or
extending their lives is not worthwhile.
Join us for our conversation with Brian Johnston Monday March 17th
2 1PM on KXTO 1150 AM in Reno and on Saturday at 2 PM.
Resources:
National Right to Life: Why So-Called Safeguards Don’t Work: Physician Assisted
SuicideNational Right to Life: What We Have Learned from Oregon
Listen to
the Nevada Right to Life Show 1550 AM KXTO Mondays at 1 PM and Saturdays at
2PM. Click here to listen on line.
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