The hypocrisy of the ‘pro-Life’ thinking drives me crazy.
..the group exists to “restore and protect the inalienable right to life for all citizens,” whether “born or preborn, young, old, disabled or terminally ill.”
Yet they believe in the Iraq War, the death penalty and the ongoing suffering of the terminally ill.
As if this Iraq Veteran hasn’t given ‘THEM’ enough:
Pro-life group won’t apologize for HospiceCare statement
Under threat of a lawsuit, Pro-Life Wisconsin pulled a news release accusing HospiceCare of murder in removing the feeding tubes of severely injured Marine Staff Sgt. Chad Simon, but the group has not, as requested, issued a public apology or retraction.
Mothers, like Cindy Sheehan, and spouses have no rights to deal with their grief or loved ones suffering the consequences of this Republican Controlled Country’s ACTIONS (like the illegal war’s ramifications) without more ATTACKS from the Right ASSHOLES over and over again.
Another snippet-
On Aug. 11, three days after Simon’s funeral, Pro-Life Wisconsin issued a news release condemning the removal of Simon’s feeding tube.
“Sgt. Simon was a victim of two different faces of the culture of death,” Hamill said in the news release. “He was certainly a victim of international terrorism, but he was also a victim of America’s rapidly decaying system of ‘hospice’ care. Sgt. Simon died of dehydration, not from any sort of brain injuries. Sgt. Simon was rendered handicapped by the bomb in Iraq, he was murdered by those who were in charge of his medical care.”
Hospice responded aggressively the next day.
“The content of your press release is per se defamatory and subjects both Pro-Life Wisconsin and Peggy Hamill to legal liability,” Hospice attorney Pitz wrote. “It is readily apparent from the press release that you intentionally have sought to falsely disparage Hospice.”
Pitz also declared that the group had “falsely accused Hospice of committing a criminal act.”
Hamill responded with a revised news release – the sentence referring to Simon having been murdered by Hospice was deleted – but never posted it on the group’s Web site.
According to Pro-Life Wisconsin’s Web site, the group exists to “restore and protect the inalienable right to life for all citizens,” whether “born or preborn, young, old, disabled or terminally ill.”
Real Life is not SACRED to The Ignorant. How do these people sleep at night? The disconnect with logic and sanity, humane treatment and dying with dignity astounds me.
I have been a Hospice volunteer in the past, gone through the training, sat with elderly people dying alone because they had no more family members alive to sit with them in their last hours. It was kind of scary at first, and then became the most peaceful event I have ever witnessed.
The only conclusion I can come up with for these so called Pro-Lifers is that They are operating in total Fear of Death mode. They are not intelligent compassionate thinking people by any stretch, and no one can convince me otherwise.
not “pro-life” — they’re PRO-CONTROL. Rather than leave the matter of death in God’s hands, they claim to know the mind of the Almighty. Were deaths in the time before feeding tubes not so bad?
For true Christians, death is a time of celebration; sure, there’s sadness that a person you love is no longer living, but there’s joy because that person is no longer suffering, but is partaking of the Heavenly Banquet. From the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer‘s Order for Burial:
The liturgy for the dead is an Easter liturgy. It finds all its meaning in the resurrection. Because Jesus was raised from the dead, we too, shall be raised.
The liturgy, therefore, is characterized by joy, in the certainty that “neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
This joy, however, does not make human grief unchristian. The very love we have for each other in Christ brings deep sorrow when we are parted by death. Jesus himself wept at the grave of his friend. So, while we rejoice that one we love has entered into the nearer presence of our Lord, we sorrow in sympathy with those who mourn.
These “pro-control” people are not true Christians — they want death on their terms, preferably with as much suffering as possible, because that’s the kind of God they believe in…a God who takes joy in suffering and pain because it “tests the mettle” of the sufferer, who is capricious enough to turn away a loyal believer if they’re not perfectly pure. Their God is sadistic enough to create people who are doomed to Hell if they live according to their true nature…and their Heaven is an exclusive country club where, if you hit it at the right time, you might be able to gain entry.
But that’s not the God I know…
Someday, if we succeed in tearing the neocon extremists away from power in this country, all these “religious” sickos can crawl back under their rocks where they belong. Time was that people like that were seen for what they are: crazy hateful bastards hiding their hatred behind a bible. Religious extremists make my skin crawl with revulsion.
After that diary and the excellent comments I have little to add-except that I think so much of this is projected fear-If I worshiped a god as sadistic and petty as they think their god is I’d fear death too. And there is a decided touch of sadism here, the wish to see suffering around them, it’s more than creepy, it’s disgusting. One of the worst things is that they and the bigots are redefining what Christianity is in the public eye, there are so many good Christians but I have to fight not to react negatively to the mere statement that someone is a Christian now and give them a chance. I have to remember that there is a great division between Christians and the ‘God is love’ side still outnumbers the ‘God is hate’ side.