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Brent Briggs's avatar

MAID: I learned very little about MAID from the article.....oh, by the way....since the author did not state it, "MAID" stands for Medical Assistance In Dying. That's a lovely name, isn't it?

I learned far more from Googling "Canada, MAID program." It's very easy to learn what it's about, who it's for, and the two types of assistance: professionally administered and self-administered. You'll gag, as did I. It was so easy, it almost felt like an advertisement.

It's curious that several state prisons in recent history have had catastrophic failures with lethal injections. If a serial killer cannot be reliably put to death in the US, what do hospitals in Canada know that the US prisons don't? Canada CERTAINLY does not use capital punishment; it's cruel!

Once you remove the HUMANITY from the human, your compassion and their human rights are extinguished. So, slavery, racism, abortion, euthanasia, etc., are the natural consequences. Modern hospitals kill far more humans than they save, especially if you count abortion.

It has been legally argued that the desire to end one's life is a MENTAL DISORDER.

Stay with me, here...

"Psychology": "the study of the soul," from Modern Latin psychologia, probably coined mid-16c. In Germany, by Melanchthon from the Latinized form of Greek psykhē "breath, spirit, soul"

Psychology is the 'study of the soul.' Yet, the vast majority of Psychologists and Psychotherapists are atheists. The "practice" of this area of study is almost entirely secular, treating faith in God as a source of many mental disorders. These "professionals" do not believe in a person's soul, so what do they have to say about mental healty....or purposeful death?

The Bible defines mental health as the degree to which you DO, or DO NOT, have Jesus in your life (see list below). Why would you go to a supposed professional who can ONLY listen to your symptoms, then decide which kinds of pharmaceuticals to put into your body? No other medical professional does this without diagnostic physical tests! Psychotropic drugs are some of the most misunderstood, misused, and damaging drugs, and they are dispensed without a medical diagnosis!!

The most successful drug rehabilitation facility in the USA is in New Jersey. The organization's president's intro speech begins with: "I have the simplest job in the world. No matter what comes in our front door, the answer is JESUS CHRIST."

Here is just a tiny sampling of Biblical support for putting Christ at the forefront of emotional and mental issues:

Philippians 4:6-7 & 13

1 Peter 5:7

John 14:16 & 27

Jonah 2:5-7

2 Timothy 1:7

Matthew 6:34 & 9:12-13

2 Corinthians 10:5

Isaiah 41:10

Matthew 11:28-30

1 John 4:8

Romans 8:6, 18 & 12:1-2

Ecclesiastes 12:12

Ephesians 4:23

James 1:5

Proverbs 3:5-6

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Ted's avatar

Agree with you about the debates in Congress at the time the 14th was passed. Illegal Aliens and Temporary Visa holders aren't subject to the jurisdiction of the United States and no that phrase didn't only apply to the children of diplomats which is demonstrable. When the 14th was passed it excluded Native Americans because Congress deemed that they were subject to tribal jurisdiction and that vast majority of Native Americans wouldn't be classified as diplomats.

Furthermore, if a draft were needed in a national emergency the United States couldn't conscript Illegal Aliens and temporary visa holders for induction into the US armed services so no, they aren't subject to the jurisdiction thereof.

I do agree with you that SCOTUS won't act because it would set off a whole host of lawsuits on behalf of illegal alien children born in the USA who would be denied citizenship citing the Equal Protection Clause unless SCOTUS in their ruling revoked the citizenship of those children of illegal aliens and temporary visa holders that had been conferred US citizenship in the past and as we've seen with DACA the courts are loath to revoke anything the govt bestows upon a class of people no matter how illegal and unconstitutional it may be.

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