Nice… IL Congressional Candidate Fired From Job For Supporting Physician-Assisted Suicide
Posted by Jim Hoft on Monday, September 17, 2012, 4:13 PM
Democrat Congressional candidate David Gill was fired from a previous position for supporting physician-assisted suicide.
The Pantagraph reported:
The race between Democrat David Gill, Republican Rodney Davis and independent John Hartman in Illinois’ 13th congressional district is among a handful of red hot contests under way in downstate Illinois.
The candidates are up on the airwaves with ads and the national groups like the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the National Republican Campaign Committee are spreading big bucks around trying to secure or maintain majorities in the U.S. House. Press conferences are being held at gas stations, in cornfields and, of course, in front of American flags…
…Gill’s work history includes being fired from a job as a doctor at OSF St. Joseph Medical Center in Bloomington because of his views on physician-assisted suicide, which is illegal.
Here’s what Gill said about physician-assisted suicide back in 1997.
“I don’t think people should have to put up with the amount of suffering the state says they have to. A lot of physicians feel disgruntled, ashamed and disgusted in their inability to assist patients,” Gill said in an article in The (Bloomington) Pantagraph.
He added that physician-assisted suicides already occur.
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Granny commented:
Well, that is hardly surprising, since the hospital that employed him is a CATHOLIC hospital -
http://www.osfmedicalgroup.org/about/mission.html
MicahStone commented:
D-cRAT socialist extremists don’t just have Kevorkian-envy, they OUT DO Kevorkian every day by ripping thousands of unborn fetuses from women’s wombs and illegally killing adults through physician-assisted suicide. And, as if that weren’t despicable enough, they praise and idolize cop killers. The Party of Death has no limit on murder.
JR Dogman commented:
#1 Granny, that’s right — it is perfectly reasonable for a Catholic institution to fire a doctor for supporting assisted suicide.
That said, there are plenty of us on the libertarian, non-religious right who support assisted suicide… and abortion. I think Roe should be overturned because it is bad law, but in the event that happens and we get to vote Yea/Nay on abortion on a state-by-state basis, I’m voting Yea wherever I happen to be living at the time. And I will also vote for assisted suicide. I can appreciate why religious people would object to these practices, and I respect their opinions as legitimate — I just don’t agree with them.
I think a lot of religious conservatives err by assuming that all conservatives or conservative-leaning people do or should take a pro-life view on the basis of their faith. I support a number of pro-life politicians every election, but not because they’re pro-life. And every election season I try to persuade people who I know to be fiscal conservatives but who are adamantly pro-choice (I prefer to say, “pro-abortion”, but that’s just me; I know abortion is a grisly business and I can’t stand euphemisms) to vote GOP. I do my best to explain that one can be anti-Roe while still supporting legal abortion, and I am sad to say that it seems most pro-lifers have given up this line of argument — instead they communicate an all-or-nothing stance on the issue that alienates a lot of otherwise conservative voters from voting for people who, e.g., in addition to being pro-life are also pro-fiscal sanity.
cecil dildine commented:
Great news!!!! I live in the new 13th however it does take in Champaign-Urbana and parts of Springfield
A'E commented:
JR Dogman my dear, it’s still murder, & God still exists.
Texas_Treeroach commented:
Democratic Congressional candidate David Gill was just being “forward-thinking.”
Eveyone knows that dead people always vote Democrat.
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JR Dogman commented:
Re #9, “JR Dogman my dear, it’s still murder, & God still exists”, both of those statements are opinions — they’re not facts. That’s the point: when religious conservatives insist that agnostic or atheist conservatives accept their faith-based views as fact, they alienate potential allies. Neither of us knows if God exists; that’s a fact. However, you have decided to put your faith in the existence of God, whereas I am comfortable as an agnostic — I’m happy to say I don’t know, and I don’t feel the need for religion in my life. I respect your views but don’t share them. But with regard to many if not most other issues we are likely in agreement. In fact, I think you should welcome someone who is pro-abortion yet knows that Roe should be reversed because it’s bad law. Every time the subject comes up with Democrat-voting friends and family members, that is what I stress: you can support legal abortion while being against federal intrusion on a matter that, per the Constitution, ought to be left to be decided by the individual states. Making them see the wisdom in this view is very difficult, however, because, rightly or wrongly, they believe that the pro-life movement is eager to impose a nationwide ban on abortion, much as the left has imposed a nationwide allowance of the practice, on theological grounds.
A day may come when civilized societies view the practice of abortion as akin to slavery — a shameful thing, so vile we cannot imagine anyone ever supported it. I think that day will be a long time in coming, but I have no doubt that the pro-life movement is winning the argument, simply because of technology. Abortion is ugly, no doubt about it. Yet I support it, because I think there will always be cases of women seeking abortions; outlawing the procedure will not put an end to it, it will just endanger women’s lives. Is abortion murder? I don’t know. Sometimes I think, “It’s close enough.” Then again, I support capital punishment, too. And I know that we are talking about innocents vs. condemned criminals, but there are many people who believe that life is sacred, period — whether it is the life of a murderer or that of an unborn child. I don’t agree with that view. I won’t mock someone for holding it, but I can’t support it.
The bottom line is, there are so many people who are fiscally conservative, who are anti-illegal immigration, who take the Islamist threat seriously, yet who, come election day, are single-issue voters, and the single issue they vote on is abortion — and they vote Democrat. I’ve been doing my best to get them to stop doing this, I’ve been trying to explain how it is that I am pro-abortion yet consistently vote for pro-life candidates — but it’s an uphill battle. And the more they associate the pro-life movement with religious faith they do not share, rather than a simple, commonsense Constitutional argument, the steeper that hill gets for me to negotiate.
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