This is an urgent alert to all pro-lifers who can attend a protest this Friday in Los Angeles.
The promoter of terminal sedation into death and voluntary stopping eating and drinking in hospice, Ira Byock, MD, will be the keynote speaker along with Archbishop Gomez at the Caring for the Whole Person conference this coming Friday.
Though Byock is well-respected within the culture of hospice and palliative care industry, he is the last person the Catholic Church should be inviting to talk about end-of-life care.
The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels
555 West Temple Street, Los Angeles
The all-day conference begins at 8:30 am.
The above alert was sent by the Hospice Patients Alliance on Feb. 3.
The following statement was sent out on Feb. 3 by Brian Johnston, spokesman for the California ProLife Council:
The California ProLife Council opposes ‘terminal sedation’ or the opiated dehydration of vulnerable patients. “This is the intentional, medical killing of a patient in one’s care.”
The practice of intentional medical dehydration was spelled out and condemned by the Nuremberg Medical Trials.
The California Conference of Catholic Bishops, under its recently retired director, had errantly supported this form of euthanasia in the case of Robert Wendland, filing an amicus brief with the California Courts supporting intentional dehydration. The California Supreme Court ruled against them, finding such practices to be unethical.
Pope John Paul II issued an ad limina rebuke of the conference’s support of dehydration, and of the religious body’s approval of killing Robert Wendland. “…the omission of nutrition and hydration intended to cause a patient’s death must be rejected and that, while giving careful consideration to all the factors involved, the presumption should be in favor of providing medically assisted nutrition and hydration to all patients who need them.”
The retired director continues to work advising the quasi-Catholic, billion-dollar health industry in the Western states. The former Catholic Healthcare West has been instructed by Bishop Olmsted of Phoenix to no longer use the term “Catholic” due to their unethical medical procedures.
Doesn’t the Doctrine of Double Effect permit terminal sedation when the object of the treatment is to relieve suffering, not cause a person’s death?
Yes, but the object here is to cause a person’s death.
Thank you for reporting on this! The wiping out of the elderly, sick, and dying, was only a logical consequence of baby murder and yet another holocaust waiting to be defeated. It’s time for the PRO-LIFE movement to take a serious stand against palliative care, diabolically referred to as”comfort care”, hospice, which is all about precipitating a patient’s death by morphine. This is now being pushed top-down by Cardinal Parolin & Soros people at the “Pontifical Academy for Life” (should be ‘For Death’). See announcement for this year’s conference in Rome: http://www.academyforlife.va/content/pav/en/projects/pallife/pallife_meeting_2018.html
The doctrine of ‘double-effect’ or ‘unintended consequences’ does not apply in these dehydration deaths. Pope St. John Paul II and the California Supreme Court were clear in this. The intentional obfuscation by those who advocate this form of ‘end of life care’ is most clearly seen in the case of Jack Kevorkian, who offered the same reasoning” “Even though my actions are intentionally bringing death, my motive is to end suffering, therefore what I’m doing is compassionate.” This actually worked for him in many of this initial court cases.
The routine procedure in the “Mercy Health System” is now; prohibition of drip hydration upon admission to hospice, and the immediate introduction of morphine. The result goes only in one direction; death is not an ‘unintended consequence.’
Thank you Brian for your years of work in the pro-life trenches. God Bless!
my mother died in 2009 by morphine sedation she was not in pain And this was a catholic hospital’s hospice unit
Knock, knock.
Who’s there?
Ira.
Ira who?
Ira gret picking this guy for my personal physician.
-Abp Gomez, RIP
Olmsted overreacted. Allow them to carry on using the term “Catholic”, but only with the prefix “Non-“.
major buy-in by hierarchy of government
fiscal policy. kill off a large percentage of those who might lay
claim to Social Security/Medicare benefits thus balancing
the budget of this highly leveraged house of cards.
in this case, the red ink is the color of blood.
from Death of a Salesman to Death as a Salesman
in this New World Order, death is ALWAYS the answer
Good God, what next ?They will be building vast crematoria soon to handle all the corpses. I really thought that this died out with the end of The Third Reich…; although I am reminded of the lists of Nazis who came to America and continued their abortion/euthanasia agenda. Some , like Mengela went to Latin America and continued their disgusting work through proxys in The USA.