To Kill or not to Kill? What a Moral Dilemma - Death Penalty Embraced by Doctors
CategoriesThe American Medical News (AMN) has recently revealed that a "survey reported that 43% of physicians said they approved of doctors administering the injection" for the execution of prisoners. Whilst the AMN reveals the medical establishment's 'moral crisis' over this issue, owing to the fact that, um... doctors are supposed to heal people not kill them, it might be worth pointing out that such a blithe disrespect for the sanctity of human life is not such an unheard of thing in the pharmaceutically controlled medical profession.
Gary Null's 'Death by Medicine' reveals that 784 000 people die at the hands of the medical establishment every year in the USA alone, and that is a very modest estimate - Null concludes that the equivalent of 6 jumbo jets are falling out of the sky everyday in the US owing to the work of, what I personally am tempted to call, the 'syringe-ically' gifted within the world of modern medicine.43% of doctors - that's almost half of a whole profession - happy to kill? Indeed, execution by lethal injection is the preferred method of killing prisoners in the United States, with 37 of the 38 states that practise the death penalty, as well as the government and military, using this popular form of human-disposal - a total of 770 executions thanks to the caring hands of doctors since 1976.
Bianca Jagger , supporter of the Alliance for Natural Health's campaign to stop the pharmaceutically instigated European legislation banning supplements and natural remedies is also an important campaigner for the abolition of the death penalty . She has been working ceaselessly to draw people's attention to this barbaric punishment which is deeply stained by racist hatred and includes the execution of juveniles .
Interesting to note that "the AMA (American Medical Association) policy does not take a stand on capital punishment itself but calls for keeping physicians out of the process". A significant comment that might lead one to believe the conscientious AMA must be wary of offending their pro-death-penalty friends in high places.
Still, these illuminating articles reveal an encouraging step in the right direction. At least the issue has sparked off, within the medical establishment, a sluggish mental process from synapse to synapse leading to a question mark, if a somewhat feeble one. The medical profession might even be said to be developing a conscience.Emma Holister
Illinois set to take doctors out of executions
Some states require physicians to be part of the execution process, which the AMA opposes.
By Andis Robeznieks, AMNews staff. July 28, 2003
http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2003/07/28/prse0728.htm
In the execution chamber: Do doctors have a place - at all?
Physicians' roles in legal injections are facing new challenges
By Andis Robeznieks, AMNews staff. Oct. 25, 2004
http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2004/10/25/prsa1025.htm
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