Culture of Death

In a country where we allow millions of abortions to take place, have allowed assisted suicide in some cases, and generally do not value life as we should, what else can we expect when faced with a terrifying occurence such as Hurricane Katrina?

USA Today: Hospital workers subpoenaed in post-Katrina deaths---

Louisiana officials have issued subpoenas to 73 staff members of a local hospital to force them to cooperate with a probe into whether critically ill patients were euthanized or mistreated during the chaos after Hurricane Katrina, state Attorney General Charles Foti Jr. said Wednesday.
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Among other things, investigators are examining a Memorial doctor's claim that some of the 45 patients who died there after Katrina hit on Aug. 29 might have been given lethal doses of painkillers to end their suffering. The doctor, Bryant King, has not responded to requests by USA TODAY for comment. He has told CNN that he heard staff members discuss euthanizing critically ill patients as conditions deteriorated in the hospital. Other Memorial doctors dispute that. John Kokemor told MSNBC on Tuesday, "At no time did I hear any conversations or witness any ... mercy killing."

The probe is part of a review of about 215 deaths at hospitals and nursing homes in this area, the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals says. Besides the allegations at Memorial, investigators are reviewing whether people at nearly two dozen facilities were abandoned or neglected.

I am Pro-Life and I don't believe in abortion (for any reason) or euthanasia. I certainly do not believe that ill or elderly people who were left in the care of doctors and nurses during Hurricane Katrina should have been "put out of their misery." If such a thing was done, the people who did the deeds should be tried and convicted.

Yet, back in the spring, in a state a few over from Louisiana, Terri Schiavo was essentially murdered when the doctors and nurses who were supposed to be "caring" for her removed her feeding tube at her "husband's" behest.

This was wrong and immoral and murder.

Yet, now, when a huge hurricane, followed by massive floods, swept through Louisiana, people are up in arms over critically ill patients were euthanized or mistreated.

When Terri Schiavo was murdered, there was no hurricane swirling outside, ripping doors off hinges, breaking windows, no floods pouring into her room and sweeping her hospital bed up.

Only now the media has outrage about ill people being mistreated?

What else should do they expect in a Culture of Death? People have become so liberalized that they no longer value life as they should.

Even doctors and nurses, who are supposed to preserve, and not take life, have been sucked into the Culture of Death. Society has made it acceptable for babies to be ripped apart and sucked out of their mothers, for ill or elderly people to be killed "because their quality of life wasn't good," for people to be thrown away.

In such a society, have those who support abortion and euthanasia have any right to be shocked or complain when medical "professionals" do what society says is ok to do?

Those of us who support Life are shocked by every abortion, by every "mercy killing." We would never behave in such a way toward the most helpless among us, the pre-born and the ill and elderly.

It is a pity that society no longer feels that way.