Should a physician be allowed to cut, slash and terminate lives if done discreetly and privately. A recently passed Oklahoma law concerning abortion that does not recognize a physicians
right to privacy covering his action abortion someone else’s fetus
in theory should apply to euthanasia equally well. It is a real
stretch of the constitution to say that a citizen’s right to
privacy implicitly covers his actions upon others to perform services
for them. While an abortion may be legal for a women to perform upon
herself, as it might be legal in Oregon and and few other states to
take one’s own life if sick and in pain, it is quite another thing
for someone else to take take another’s life or abort a fetus even
with consent.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/20/us/oklahoma-bill-abortion-doctors.html?_r=0
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/20/us/oklahoma-bill-abortion-doctors.html?_r=0
The
U.S. Supreme Court has never said that an abortion is moral or
implicitly meaningless, it instead simply determined that the issue
is hidden under the right to privacy all citizens have. When another
citizen becomes involved that privacy has already been compromised.
Making it a felony for a physician or anyone else to perform an
abortion on someone else appears to be consistent with the concept of
privacy.
If
privacy were to be used as a general curtain to excuse illegal acts
such as possession of stolen goods or buying and selling stolen goods
the absurdity would be apparent even to members of the court. The
high court should not just decide what things are politically correct
to hide behind the curtain of privacy, or how many people can be in
the space concealed from legal review.
When
a city such as Arlington Texas is asked to build a new 900 million
dollar sports stadium for the Texas Rangers to place baseball in with
parking taxes raised to help pay for it, wouldn’t the visiting
citizen from Houston have a just right to be excused from paying the
parking meter tax because he hates the Rangers and has a right to
privacy in his parking space without the intrusion of decadent,
corrupt government building stadiia when the Zika virus is spreading?
Why is the Houstonian’s right to
privacy destroyed when he does not want to subsidize a private sports
authority?
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