{"id":13202,"date":"2017-03-14T18:49:33","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T01:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=13202"},"modified":"2017-03-14T18:49:33","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T01:49:33","slug":"euthanasia-in-nevada-life-coming-up-snake-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2017\/03\/14\/euthanasia-in-nevada-life-coming-up-snake-eyes\/","title":{"rendered":"Euthanasia in Nevada: Life Coming Up Snake Eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Nevada Legislature is considering <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leg.state.nv.us\/Session\/79th2017\/reports\/history.cfm?ID=604\" target=\"_blank\">SB261<\/a>, that lets doctors proscribe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reviewjournal.com\/news\/politics-and-government\/nevada\/assisted-suicide-bill-introduced-nevada-senate\" target=\"_blank\">death as an acceptable medical treatment<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Senate Bill 261, introduced by Sen. David Parks, D-Las Vegas, allows a patient over 18 years old to request life-ending drugs if their conditions are terminal and likely to result in death within six months. At least two doctors would have to verify the diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The patient must be a Nevada resident and mentally competent to make the life-ending decision. It would also require the patient be able to self-administer the drugs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13203\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Nevada-Euthanasia.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"532\" height=\"496\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Nevada-Euthanasia.jpg 532w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Nevada-Euthanasia-300x280.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 532px) 100vw, 532px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Many a year ago, the Netherlands legalized euthanasia, with the stern promise that only rational adults with scant months to live would be allowed to &#8220;die with dignity,&#8221; with claims that this would lead to doctors killing off patients without the patients consent declared to be a &#8220;slippery slope fallacy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;That slippery slope has turned out to be <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2012\/10\/08\/europes-death-penalty-slaughter-of-the-innocents\/\" target=\"_blank\">not so fallacious<\/a> after all. Netherlands, as well as Belgium and many other European countries, have tossed aside that promise to revel in the <em>fait acompli<\/em> of <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2015\/06\/29\/pediatricians-to-the-netherlands-let-us-kill-children\/\" target=\"_blank\">slaughtered children<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2015\/08\/03\/harvesting-organs-from-the-mentally-ill\/\" target=\"_blank\">harvesting organs<\/a> for the mentally ill (and perhaps from the <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2016\/04\/04\/the-future-of-euthanasia-harvesting-organs-from-live-donors\/\" target=\"_blank\">still living<\/a>), and even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2017\/01\/28\/panel-clears-dutch-doctor-asked-family-hold-patient-carried\/\" target=\"_blank\">forcibly killing people<\/a> as they pleaded that they want to live, not to mention the underreporting of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/news\/infant-euthanasia-underreported-in-netherlands-study-finds\" target=\"_blank\">dead babies<\/a> and other <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/341\/bmj.c5174\" target=\"_blank\">innocents<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Even in the United States, in states that have legalized it, patients are <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2016\/08\/08\/the-hot-new-medical-advice-kill-yourself\/\" target=\"_blank\">being pushed to kill themselves<\/a> by offering to pay for the death drugs while denying life-saving treatments.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;So spare us the falsity of a hollow promise, o denizens of the legislature!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;SB261 is gambling with the people&#8217;s lives, and it might just end up snake eyes <em>for you<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The bill as introduced:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p  style=\" margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; display: block;\">   <a title=\"View SB261 on Scribd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/341820129\/SB261#from_embed\"  style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" >SB261<\/a> by <a title=\"View ThePoliticalHat's profile on Scribd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/user\/188606198\/ThePoliticalHat#from_embed\"  style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" >ThePoliticalHat<\/a> on Scribd<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/embeds\/341820129\/content?start_page=1&#038;view_mode=scroll&#038;access_key=key-Zds0rABpg0Rl72JUUpU4&#038;show_recommendations=true\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"0.6954510408635313\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"doc_27289\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Euthanasia in Nevada: Life Coming Up Snake Eyes\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The Nevada Legislature is considering SB261, that lets doctors proscribe death as an acceptable medical treatment.\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Nevada-Euthanasia.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Nevada Legislature is considering SB261, that lets doctors proscribe death as an acceptable medical treatment: &#8220;Senate Bill 261, introduced by Sen. David Parks, D-Las Vegas, allows a patient over 18 years old to request life-ending drugs if their conditions &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2017\/03\/14\/euthanasia-in-nevada-life-coming-up-snake-eyes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,17],"tags":[91,27,73,50,35],"class_list":["post-13202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-healthcare","category-progressives","tag-me","tag-nevada","tag-nvgov","tag-nvleg","tag-rip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13204,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13202\/revisions\/13204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}