Right-to-die bill stalled in California
Religious opposition has blocked the advancement of a right-to-die bill in the very liberal state of California—at least for now:
The authors of the right-to-die bill did not present the legislation to the Assembly Health Committee as scheduled because it did not have enough votes to advance.
The panel includes multiple Democratic lawmakers from heavily Catholic districts in the Los Angeles area, where the archdiocese actively opposed the legislation.
I don’t know where those districts are, but my best guess is that they may represent a heavy concentration of Hispanics (who tend to be Catholic), although that may be incorrect.
I’m surprised at the roadblock, but I predict that in a few years the obstacle will be knocked down. Perhaps advocates will go the court route; that seems to be the way around balky legislatures which sometimes have a pesky habit of paying attention to the will of their constituents.
I’ll have to check your link to find out if this is more “right to die” or “right for someone else to decide it’s your time to die.”
“the court route; that seems to be the way around balky legislatures which sometimes have a pesky habit of paying attention to the will of their constituents.”
That pretty well sums up our current state of politics in a nutshell. If our elected (left-wing) representatives cannot get the result they want through the legislative process, they rely on a (left-wing) court to settle the issue for them.
Remember Prop 8 in CA? When legislators didn’t get what they wanted from the people who vote for them, they went a different route.
So the question really is, how to voters get their power back?
There’s legal. There’s common sense. I wouldn’t have wished my father another hour and I could wish I could wish away his last week.
Then, as these things inevitably do, we move to duty to die.
And if somebody isn’t fulfilling his duty, there’s a ‘crat to make sure.
Where there is a Democrat, there is a way. As there was a homosexual judge, there will be a euthanasia judge to override the democratic will.
That said, there is an inalienable right-to-die. What there is not, today, is an industry comparable to Planned Parenthood et al that will perform the service.
Why doesn’t the abortion industry provide capital punishment and euthanasia services? It’s seems like a ripe opportunity to reduce overhead and duplication.
A Demoncrat will always make sure the crats are there. And when there is a will, there’s a way.
Here’s the bill:
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB128
The movement will be pushed forward with sad stories. You will be an evil person if you are unmoved by the sad stories.
Sad stories from another POV, or heaven forbid, statistics about how many people who want to die later decide they are glad they didn’t, will be relegated to back pantries and closets.
Palliative care is quite good these days. The need for any Right To Die diminishes, but the drumbeat intensifies.
The “right-to-die” is simply a way station on the road to the “obligation-to-die”.
Geoffrey Britain:
This.
If you don’t kill evil when you see em, eventually evil is going to wipe you out. It just tends to work like that, and no amount of debate or argument tends to change things in any significant fashion for humanity. So why do humans continue to think they can make compromises?
So the question really is, how to voters get their power back?
Far as I know, the only certain way to get power back that has been transfered is to get a blade and hack off a bureaucrat’s head, so that they bleed out the power ala Highlander.
And that’s partially a joke.
Assisted suicide (i.e. the right to die) is a FAILURE of the medical establishment. It is not progress. It is not success. Sates like Oregon and countries like Sweden and the Netherlands have failed the most vulnerable among us.
Neo: Read “Being Mortal” by Atul Gawande. It is an amazing and important book.