Loading ...PORTLAND, Ore. (ChurchMilitant.com) – A bill that gives healthcare providers the right to starve mentally ill patients and those with dementia advanced in the Oregon Senate Monday.
SB494 passed out of the Senate Rules Committee with certain amendments. Colm Willis testified in front of the committee that the bill, even as amended, still gives healthcare providers the legal right to withhold food and water from these patients and against their will in some instances.
The current version of SB494 “could allow a healthcare representative to make a life-ending decision for a person not in an end of life condition without his or her explicit consent, said Willis”
Gayle Atteberry, director of Oregon Right to Life, remarked, “This bill, written in a deceiving manner, has as its goal to save money at the expense of starving and dehydrating dementia and mentally ill patients to death.”
A war on getting old with dignity. Next it will be disabled children.
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