Sigh

if the Supreme court in the USA changes Roe to allow states to regulate abortion, many hysterical women will object.

But what no one wants to admit is that many of them, in their hearts, regret that they killed their child, and to calm their guilt they will project it as anger on anyone who whispers: But it was a baby.

Sigh.

and I'm old enough to remember when Drudge posted this and was condemned by many. 

 Ironically it was a photo of interutero surgery to fix a myelocoel on the base of the spine, a condition that leads many women being pressured to abort, and of course the same defect that led to the Baby Jane Doe case, when the parents were advised not to treat, meaning the child would probably die. But the child didn't die and later had surgery to make it easier to take care of her... last report was when she was six years old and doing well in a wheelchair.

In European countries, some of these children are given euthanasia: and with Colorado and California pushing abortion rights bills that allow infanticide, you can see this decision will soon be normalized.

Ironically, it is the same defect where the University of Oklahoma did a triage based on "scientific" criteria whether to treat or not... and it was only years later that a Black Doctor noticed that one criteria for treatment was parents education and wealth, so most of the kids not treated were minorities.

No, there is no racism in medicine (/sarcasm).

Something to remember the next time you read about why we need compassionate euthanasia: believe me, there is racism (or actually class prejudice against working class and the poor), and this might not lead to overt unwanted killing, but an atmosphere where doctors decide death by "non treatment decisions"

Or maybe just allowing the poor and elderly to die because Medicare/Medicaid regulations that said this should be done must be followed.

So Governor Cuomo in New York and Dr. Levine in Pennsylvania allowed covid positive patient to be put back into nursing homes, because treatment in hospitals or alternative facilities would cost money, and hey, the regulations said they would be safe (never mind that anyone who worked in a nursing home knew this was not the reality of understaffed, poorly trained staff in many nursing homes).

from AARP: 

Nursing homes with a higher proportion of Black and Hispanic residents reported more than three times as many COVID-19 deaths as homes with more white residents, according to a new national study. Nursing homes with more than 40 percent minority residents reported coronavirus case and death counts that were 3.3-fold higher than facilities with more than 97 percent white residents.

Hmm... imagine that. (/sarcasm).

there are reasons that the black and other minorities won't sign living wills and don't quite trust doctors: and the marxist anti racism training in medical schools won't help, because the same medical schools are teaching that those with poor quality of life shouldn't live, and guess who has a poor quality of life?

The RoeVWade was not about just about women's rights. 

It was also about letting minority women get abortions: partly because we saw so many septic abortions from illegal procedures, but also the country club crowd wanted it for their daughters if they got pregnant out of wedlock. 

But the decision was flawed, not based on law but because the justices wanted to change the law and used their power to do so. 

And much of the division in the USA is the slow result of pushing policies favored by the elite via the court system, where voting about these laws is not allowed.

But it doesn't stop there.

the ethical journals are full of QALY and other philosophies that will lead to older people being killed to save money. (and I say this as someone who also opposed overtreatment of terminal patients: not treating someone who is senile or handicapped but treatment will probably save them is not the same as keeping people alive on tubes).

Traditionally, physicians were taught it was a holy calling, and we took the Hippocratic oath forbids the taking of life, including abortion, but when the law was changed, medical schools started changing it.

and about this time, medicine and hospitals became big business for profit, and regulators 1000 miles away made rules that made no sense but hey if you didn't obey them, you wouldn't get paid.

So what was the response of those leading the medical training schools to this loss of the idea of the sacredness of life?

They changed the Hippocratic oath, and some used newfangled oaths: For example, many schools teach an oath that states:

Most especially must I tread with care in matters of life and death. If it is given me to save a life, all thanks. But it may also be within my power to take a life; this awesome responsibility must be faced with great humbleness and awareness of my own frailty.

Sigh.