One under-reported outcome of the US elections was that, thanks to the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v Jackson ruling, the US federal system got a chance to work on abortion. Freed of the shackles of judicial fiat by activist judges, US states got to democratically make up their minds. Seven states voted pro-abortion, three against. Voters in at least one state overthrew the heaviest restrictions on abortion.
The system working as intended.
In an even more under-reported outcome, West Virginia voted ‘pro-life’ for the other end of life.
West Virginia voters on Tuesday narrowly approved a constitutional amendment that adds a prohibition on medically assisted suicide to the state’s constitution. Amendment 1 passed with 50.5% of voters voting for the measure, and 49.5% opposing it, according to unofficial results from the Secretary of State’s Office.
Medically assisted suicide is already illegal in West Virginia.
The amendment adds to the bill of rights a line that says, “No person, physician, or health care provider in the State of West Virginia shall participate in the practice of medically assisted suicide, euthanasia, or mercy killing of a person.”
It goes on to say that nothing in the section prohibits giving a prescription of medication to alleviate pain or discomfort, prohibit the withholding or withdrawing of life-sustaining treatment, and nothing in the section prevents the state using capital punishment.
The death-obsessed left are already whining.
Laura Hully, a mother of five in Berkeley County, said she didn’t have time to research the amendment before voting and that it was “obviously worded in a very confusing way.”
Really?
What part of “No person, physician, or health care provider in the State of West Virginia shall participate in the practice of medically assisted suicide, euthanasia, or mercy killing of a person”, and “The purpose of this amendment is to protect West Virginians against medically assisted suicide”, didn’t she understand?
And there’s no backsies for lacking reading comprehension.
Hully said she reached out to Sen Patricia Rucker, who represents her district, to see if there is any way that the vote could be changed, considering people said they were confused by it.
Rucker said she told her she doesn’t think there’s anything in the constitution that would require a recount in this circumstance.
If anything, the confusion is of the pro-death side’s own making. If they’d only use plain language, instead of resorting to euphemisms, to try and make their legalised suicide measures sound ‘nice’.
“Medical aid in dying,” as it’s referred to by advocates, is legal in 10 US states. Bills to that effect were introduced in 23 states this year.
Just call it what it is: legalised suicide.
Bishop Mark Brennan of the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston […] pointed out that medically assisted suicide “corrupts the medical profession” and that “many of the reasons that lead people to choose the help of medical personnel to end their lives can be met by nonlethal means.”
But the left want to be able to kill people.
