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New Zealand Pays $1000 To Doctors For Euthanizing “COVID-19” Patients
"New Zealand’s Ministry of Health (MOH) has confirmed that COVID-19 patients may be eligible for assisted suicide.
Additionally, the government will pay about $1087 to doctors for each patient they euthanize, according to Stuff, the island nation’s most popular newspaper.
An anti-euthanasia group called DefendNZ sent an Official Information Act request last month asking the government to clarify a new euthanasia bill called the End of Life Choice Act (EOLCA), specifically as it relates to 'severely hospitalized' Covid patients.
'Could a patient who is severely hospitalized with Covid-19 potentially be eligible for assisted suicide or euthanasia under the Act if a health practitioner viewed their prognosis as less than 6 months?' the group asked.
The MOH responded on December 7 that,'In some circumstances a person with COVID-19 may be eligible for assisted dying.'
From the MOH (emphasis added):
There are clear eligibility criteria for assisted dying. These include that a person must have a terminal illness that is likely to end their life within six months.
A terminal illness is most often a prolonged disease where treatment is not effective. The EOLC Act states eligibility is determined by the attending medical practitioner (AMP), and the independent medical practitioner.
Eligibility is determined on a case-by-case basis; therefore, the Ministry cannot make definitive statements about who is eligible. In some circumstances a person with COVID-19 may be eligible for assisted dying... the NZ government incentivizes doctors with $1000 payments for each patient who undergoes euthanasia.
'Doctors receive a government fee of $1,000 plus expenses for every euthanasia death they perform,' the Catholic Herald reported, adding that only '96 of the country’s 16,000 doctors have offered to participate, however, and all but one of the nation’s 32 hospices have indicated that they will not permit euthanasia.'
Baroness Finlay of Llandaff, a UK professor of palliative medicine, told the Herald that the EOLCA betrays the fundamental principles of bioethics.
'It is bizarre that a country which has been trying to protect it citizens by closing down completely from a virus from which people can fully recover…is now suggesting that these patients should be killed by their doctors,' Finlay said. 'It turns the ethos of medicine on its head.'
Similarly, the American College of Physicians condemned euthanasia in 2017, arguing that 'physician-assisted suicide is neither a therapy nor a solution to difficult questions raised at the end of life.'
On a related note, Sweden recently unveiled a 'suicide pod', a euthanasia device that supposedly brings about a 'painless' death..."
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