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Palin: Senior Citizens Will Be Pressured to Die

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jvic8/13/2009 11:33:49 am PDT

re: #22 medaura18586

Stirring the irrational passions of the so-con base. She welcomes gratuitous controversy with these asinine remarks, and I’ll tell you why: I am tooth and nail against ObamaCare but favor the availability of euthanasia, and just like me, there is a considerable chunk of the electorate that opposes this bill out of economic and pragmatic considerations and couldn’t care less about whether abortion is funded or euthenasia covered. She doesn’t offer anything to us.

All she does is provide a red herring for derailing the subject at hand from one on the merits of socialized health-care versus market-based initiatives into one about euthanasia. How stupid is that? How unhelpful in that to opponents of ObamaCare?

I completely agree. As long as euthanasia or assisted suicide are voluntary, of course.

Some on the right want to outlaw assisted suicide altogether. They make the “argument” that because assisted suicide probably has led to instances of involuntary all-but-euthanasia in rationed-care systems, therefore all assisted suicide should be made illegal. “QED.” (And while we’re at it, note that some people abuse painkillers. So let’s make doctors wary of being prosecuted for prescribing them.)

IMO it’s to this constituency that Palin is blowing a dog whistle. Very ineptly if she seeks national office; maybe effectively if she wants a gig to compete with Glenn Beck.

I’ve posted this before and I’m posting it again. My life is not the property of the State. And that includes a theocratic State.