[lit-ideas] Re: Right to Life, Right to Die

  • From: Judy Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 18:22:09 +0000

Saturday, March 26, 2005, 4:13:10 AM, Judy Evans wrote:


JE> Here where taxation is a somewhat greater issue potentially

I retract that comment; you spend a lot more on medical care than we
do (primarily because a. your administration costs are large and b.
your doctors are so highly paid), and the majority of people here are
prepared to pay higher taxes for better public services.


JE>  given NHS
JE> care and state aid to many in private nursing homes, in the 8 years
JE> following the the ruling that first allowed withdrawal of a feeding tube
JE> (the parents petitioned for that to be allowed), only 20 cases came
JE> before the courts (I think that must include the 2 in 2000 that brought the
JE> ruling that the Human Rights Act did not preclude withdrawal of a
JE> feeding tube).   "The intuitions of 99% of professional and family carers
JE>  are that tube-feeding in PVS should be continued, and so far there
JE>  have been few deaths due to withdrawing food and fluid".

JE>  Christian Medical Fellowship of the UK,

JE> 
JE> http://www.cmf.org.uk/literature/content.asp?context=article&id=980
 






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