An Unfortunate 1 Time Mistake or A Sign of Things to Come?
This is 1 story that just breaks my heart. (My comments added in blue)
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
London, England (LifeNews.com) -- In a scandal that is causing a massive outcry, (it should) a British hospital has allowed a Down syndrome patient to starve to death over a 26 day period. Martin Ryan, who could not swallow after a stroke, was allowed to lie in a bed and starve to death without receiving any medical care. Note that it says no medical care, not just not fed.
Ryan died in a hospital in Kingston-upon-Thames and the medical center conducted an internal investigation following his death.
The query found that doctors thought staff nurses were feeding him with a feeding tube in his nose, but by the time anyone realized that had not happened for weeks, Ryan was took weak for a surgery to insert a gastronomy tube in his stomach. My 1st question is why did it take 3 weeks before anyone realized he wasn't being fed? Also, why no medical care at all? & who is being held responsible for Ryan's murder?
Ryan died five days after medical staff noticed the problem and his family, according to a London Daily Mail report, is outraged. Rightly so.
One relative told the newspaper, "Martin will always be the light of my life. He had a quirky sense of humor and oodles of charm. He was often smiling -- he loved to go out, liked the movement of the coach and listening to the music." Remember the claim that it is OK to abort Down syndrome babies because they have no quality of life? This statement alone shows how big a lie that claim really is.
A report by the Mencap charity following the incident found the British governmental health service has also failed other people with mental difficulties, citing a young woman denied cancer treatment and a young man who died during treatment for a broken leg.
Anthony Ozimic, the political secretary of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, a British pro-life group, told LifeNews.com the British government must be held accountable for what is becoming routine discrimination against the mentally disabled.
"Mencap has identified institutional discrimination within Britain's healthcare services against people with learning disabilities," he said. "Yet lethal institutional discrimination against the disabled and vulnerable is enshrined in law and policy, particularly in the pro-euthanasia Mental Capacity Act which Mencap supported."
"Disabled adults will continue to die because of discriminatory attitudes whilst the Mental Capacity Act and the killing of disabled unborn children, which manifest those attitudes, remain law," Ozimic added.
An ombudsman has been investigating such cases as Ryan's and is expected to report soon. Then what? So far plenty of blame has been passed arround, but no responsibility has been taken.
Ryan died in a hospital in Kingston-upon-Thames and the medical center conducted an internal investigation following his death.
The query found that doctors thought staff nurses were feeding him with a feeding tube in his nose, but by the time anyone realized that had not happened for weeks, Ryan was took weak for a surgery to insert a gastronomy tube in his stomach. My 1st question is why did it take 3 weeks before anyone realized he wasn't being fed? Also, why no medical care at all? & who is being held responsible for Ryan's murder?
Ryan died five days after medical staff noticed the problem and his family, according to a London Daily Mail report, is outraged. Rightly so.
One relative told the newspaper, "Martin will always be the light of my life. He had a quirky sense of humor and oodles of charm. He was often smiling -- he loved to go out, liked the movement of the coach and listening to the music." Remember the claim that it is OK to abort Down syndrome babies because they have no quality of life? This statement alone shows how big a lie that claim really is.
A report by the Mencap charity following the incident found the British governmental health service has also failed other people with mental difficulties, citing a young woman denied cancer treatment and a young man who died during treatment for a broken leg.
Anthony Ozimic, the political secretary of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, a British pro-life group, told LifeNews.com the British government must be held accountable for what is becoming routine discrimination against the mentally disabled.
"Mencap has identified institutional discrimination within Britain's healthcare services against people with learning disabilities," he said. "Yet lethal institutional discrimination against the disabled and vulnerable is enshrined in law and policy, particularly in the pro-euthanasia Mental Capacity Act which Mencap supported."
"Disabled adults will continue to die because of discriminatory attitudes whilst the Mental Capacity Act and the killing of disabled unborn children, which manifest those attitudes, remain law," Ozimic added.
An ombudsman has been investigating such cases as Ryan's and is expected to report soon. Then what? So far plenty of blame has been passed arround, but no responsibility has been taken.
The more I think about it, the more I wonder what sort of coverup was done. As I said, why 3 weeks before they notice he isn't getting fed? If he wasn't getting fed then he must not have been getting hydration & if he was, why didn't anyone notice no food? & the "no medical care" just rings too many alarms. Did anyone, nurse or doctor check on him, every cursorily? If they hadn't then this is worse than mere neglect, it is malpractice. If they had, this should have been noticed. Unless, they knew & were intentionally starving him but claiming they weren't. Too much just doesn't, doesn't ring true for me.
If you notice, no one is actually being held responsible, just a generic the nurses didn't feed him. Where were the nursing supervisors, the nurses, the doctors? Just enough had to be done to keep the family from noticing anything was wrong until it was to late.
This is 1 case where a major lawsuit would be justified. That is, assuming British law allows it. Given the Mental Capacity Act seems to condone this, they may be able to get away with murder.
Sadly, Ryan is another victim of the anti-life mindset that so called ethicists like Baronness Warnock in the UK & Singer in the USA are pushing. They won't admit it, but if you follow their mindset to a logical conclusion then why do we have laws that forbid murder at all? Since human life doesn't have an automatic intrinsic value by their standard, who is to decide a person is wrong if he decides an enemy deserves to die because that enemy wronged him. The same for war, rape etc. & for that matter, if human life has no intrinsic value, why should any other form of life, animal or plant? When you use their line in the sand rather than God's carved in stone line, then anything can & eventually will go.
posted by Al @ 12:08 AM
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