Dakota Beacon

It is interesting that those who advocate for the so-called “right to choose” contend that the infant who is being destroyed in an abortion is really only a bunch of cells, not a human life.  One wonders how these same “right to choose” thinkers will deal with the other end of life when the elderly are to be put to death.

This is already a reality in the Low Countries - the Netherlands and Belgium, once considered “civilized”.  Here is the chilling story of what happens when someone is foolish and trusting enough to sign an advance directive.  It is a truly cautionary tale.

This is the problem, though, when we decide that someone else’s life is an “inconvenience”.  I knew a lady once - a very vibrant, interested, intelligent woman, actually a sort of relative in a way.  At 80 she lived alone (a widow of many years), had retired from her job but remained active and independent, driving herself where she needed to go, traveling to visit family in distant cities, taking care of her lovely apartment.  One day she suffered a stroke.  All of a sudden she was no longer seen as an “asset” but rather as a burden.  Despite the fact that people recover from strokes and resume their lives, others decided for her elderthat she no longer had an acceptable “quality of life”.  When she came down with pneumonia in the hospital, no treatment was offered.  She was simply allowed to die.  No longer an asset.

This will be in store for anyone in a society which accepts that life is expendable.  When you hear people talking about a “right to choose” remember they are choosing for someone else, not just for themselves.  They are choosing life or destruction for a child.  What that means is that whenever someone else’s life becomes a burden, that, too, is expendable.   It’s all the same thing.  Who should decide whose life is more important?  We obviously can’t trust the medical profession with this.

A worthwhile civilization values its elders, learns from them, stands upon their shoulders to reach higher.  If we are to be a worthwhile civilization we must stop countenancing - to say nothing of encouraging - these so-called “advance directives”.  They give cover for homicide.

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