- Apr 2016
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Last week California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law a controversial bill that makes it legal for doctors to prescribe life-ending drugs to terminally ill patients.
Doctors obviously signed the controversial bill because they believes it would help people. Yes, it seems the poor are the ones getting hit, but in reality, it costs less to have assisted suicide than healthcare. The government, with costs of healthcare raging, is trying to provide the best possible option for these people. Some of them may have problems beyond the scope of help. Assisting death in no way precludes giving the best care possible but rather integrates compassionate care and respect for the patient's autonomy and ultimately makes death with dignity a real option. These people may want to die, to make it simpler for themselves. Doctors wouldn't agree to sign the bill unless they believed it would help. Considering the way we finance healthcare in the United States, it would be hard to make a case that there is a financial imperative compelling us to adopt physician-assisted suicide in an effort to save money so that others could benefit.
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reasons people choose assisted suicide in the state are losing autonomy (91.5%), decreasing ability to engage in enjoyable activities (88.7%), losing dignity (79.3%), losing control of body (50.1%), and becoming a burden on others (40%). Only 23% named physical pain or fear of possible physical pain as a reason.
These are indeed reasons and percents that are scary that show people's stupidity sometimes. But, some people are looking to end their lives because they aren't enjoyable. And, one of the things listed in the Declaration of Independence are Thomas' Jefferson's life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. If people don't want to live because they no longer pursue happiness, and there is no mending them, it may be best for them to die. They have the right to it by law. In addition, the right to an ill person dying is liberty. All these activities listed are health issues, and, if blown out of proportion, may be mental health issues worthy of euthanasia.
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- Feb 2016
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www.macalester.edu www.macalester.edu
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In order for stem cell therapy to become an effective form of disease treatment, scientists will have to first figure out a way to bypass that stem cell through each person’s individual immune system. The science behind stem cell research seems hopeful and in the future, stem cells could cure spinal cord injuries, Parkinson’s disease, strokes, diabetes, liver disease, heart disease, poor circulation, hemophilia, Muscular dystrophy, sickle cell disease and fanconi anemia. The science behind stem cell research is politicized because of the use of the embryo, but it seems that future stem cell treatments may save more people than stem cell research “kills.”
This scares me. This is because first it goes against the laws of religion just a little too far. God gave each person a gift. This gift is Parkinson's disease, strokes, ect. By using stem cells, we are playing God. Think about it. If we have control of people's lives, whether they live or die, doesn't that make us God? In addition, this is leading to the point of cloning. Cloning is defined as to propagate an organism as a clone. Stem cell research allows for therapeutic cloning. Therapeutic cloning occurs when an adult undergoes a cloning procedure to duplicate his own cells in order stop personal disease, illness or the effects from sudden and serious injury. This procedure also begins by creating a clone of the adult through somatic cell transfer because you are using someone else's cells. Cloning has always been a controversy in the Catholic church. If we are injecting cells from other people into ourselves,doesn't that make us clones of them? If this doesn't stop, we could get to the point in the book Unwind, where people cannot control their ligaments because they have been infused with other people's cells.
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On one side of the controversy is the religious issue. For some religious groups the use of embryonic stem cells hits a nerve because embryonic stem cells are four day old fertilized eggs and to those who believe that life begins at conception using a fertilized egg for research is murder.
This is a controversy, but only if embryonic stem cells are used. I would agree there is a problem with embryonic stem cell research because so many unborn fetuses are killed by being frozen. This also violates the Catholic Church. However, if adult stem cells are used, those aren't unborn fetuses. Those are cells that do not yet have one designated purpose. It hurts no one to use adult stem cells, and they have the same effect as embryonic stem cells. In addition, there has to be a balance between religion and science. The catholic church should concede that the killing of unborn fetuses is okay especially if they would be unborn anyways. However, science has to concede they aren't going to get every unborn fetus, and that they must dispose of the fetuses in a respectable manner.
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- Jan 2016
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docs.google.com docs.google.com
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I also hope that circumstances will soon make it possible for me to meet each of you, not as an integrationist or a civil-rights leader but as a fellow clergyman and a Christian brother. Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away and the deep fog of misunderstanding will be lifted from our fear drenched communities, and in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.
good description. Incredibly strong
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ing, Martin Luther Jr.
we really messed this up guys. we highlighted the entire thing loo. :)
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mmended the police force if you had seen its dogs sinking their teeth into unarmed, nonviolent Negroes.
this makes me hate dogs even more. Shows the evil that has been happening. Good, strong closing
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ekklesia
what does this word mean?
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In those days the church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society. Whenever the early Christians entered a town, the people in power became disturbed and immediately sought to convict the Christians for being "disturbers of the peace" and "outside agitators."' But the Christians pressed on, in the conviction that they were "a colony of heaven," called to obey God rather than man. Small in number, they were big in commitment. They were too God-intoxicated to be "astronomically intimidated." By their effort and example they brought an end to such ancient evils as infanticide and gladiatorial contests.
parallel to Christianity. Showing that there were evils in Christianity and that the christians were extremists too just like the Catholic church is blaming Martin Luther King
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sweltering summer days and crisp autumn mornings
good description also an alliteration
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