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Maine Asked to Permit Murder of Covid-19 patients
WASHINGTON, D.C., (April 29, 2020) – More than a dozen health care industry groups in Maine, representing hospitals, nursing homes, doctors and others, have formally requested permission to murder some patients if necessary to help others due to a shortage of equipment such as ventilators during the pandemic.
More precisely, they have asked the Governor to use her emergency powers to suspend the enforcement of the following criminal statutes: murder, manslaughter, assault, aggravated assault, criminal threatening, and reckless conduct in accordance with a plan for "re-allocating" scarce resources during an extreme public health emergency.
According to a report, this can result in "withdrawing a critical resource" from a person who is likely not going to survive, and giving that resource to someone else who is both more likely to survive with the resource, and who would most likely die without it. An example is taking one patient off a ventilator to give it to another patient, when the person doing so knows it will result in the death of the first patient.
Health care providers in a number of states have requested some form of immunity from liability for their actions treating COVID-19 patients, arguing that doctors and nurses might otherwise be reluctant to care for patients with such a high likelihood of dying while in their care, and in at attempt to encourage retired health care providers, and others licensed to practice only in other jurisdictions, to help out when hospitals become overwhelmed.
But sanctioning the deliberate killing of one human being, especially without his permission - in contrast with under "death with dignity" statutes - in order to increase the chances that another might survive, is very different and upsetting, notes public interest law professor John Banzhaf, who teaches a course in which cases such at this are examined.
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https://www.valuewalk.com/2020/04/maine-permit-murder-covid-patients/