Commissioner Johnston reminds us of the real battle regarding Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, and the fact that in 1973 the Supreme Court of United States declared war against the practice of medicine, as well as assaulting the foundation of the law. For three thousand years medicine has always sworn that it would, 'only care or comfort, but never harm a patient.' (Hippocratic Oath)

With the passage of the Roe v. Wade and Doe v Bolton decisions, doctors were told they were free to be hired selective killers, using medicine to intentionally take a human life which until that day had been protected, in the 50 states, the life of a vulnerable unborn child.

This fundamental assault on the nature of American law and society has had grave implications. The inversion of medicine's values and abandonment of the principle that the law has a duty to defend the lives of those that cannot defend themselves, has created a cultural dystopia. In the era of national emergency and social upheaval caused by the coronavirus we are seeing the impact of these relativistic ideas and how deeply they have scarred the American psyche and value system.

Brian explains the once former crime of, "intentional medical neglect," whereby basic necessities of life: food, water, comfort care, are denied to a vulnerable patient with the goal of the patient quickly succumbing by virtue of that same neglect.

This principle was openly advocated by Governor Northam of Virginia when the laws of New York, New Jersey and Virginia were proposed to kill a child throughout all nine months of pregnancy and should the child be born alive during and abortion, to simply set it aside to decide later what to do with it. The casual dismissal of a human life as something to be thrown out alarmed the majority of Americans and awakened them to the great evil that is abortion-on-demand.

In the spring of 2020, numerous proposals and desperate assertions were put forward as necessary and utilitarian answers to the spread of the Covid-19 virus: automatic DNR orders, refusal to treat patients above a certain age, intentional abandonment of nursing homes. Thankfully, Dr. Deborah Birx, one of President Trump’s principle advisers on infectious disease openly rebuked the ethicists who had been advocating such ideas.

What is critically important is to recognize the very common presence of these 'disposable human' values. It will only be with intentional and open opposition to such utilitarian values that America can restore itself once again to respecting the value of the human person. That is the job, not for a few, but for all Americans of goodwill.

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213: Intentional Medical Neglect and the Novel Coronavirus of 2019