Physician Heal Thyself

The doctor and his conscience are in today.

Doctor John Kitzhaber has something that some taxpayers in Oregon wish they had. He has the ability to stop the laws of the State of Oregon from carrying out an action that would take someones life.
In his statement concerning the arbitrary nature of the death penalty the governor states that he prefers life in prison without the possibility of parole.
The governors request that state legislators work with him to find a solution to the death penalty would have more gravitas if he stated that he would seek to have the state constitution amended so the governor no longer had the power to pardon or commute an inmates sentence in return for the abolition of the death penalty.
The sentence of life in prison without parole is meaningless in any state that allows the governor to pardon or commute a sentence. Just as one sin does not mitigate another sin, removing one legal action that the governor deems arbitrary and not doing away with another legal action, the arbitrary governor's power to overturn a courts verdict and sentence is illogical.

The doctor and his conscience are out today.

One hopes that Governor Kitzhaber will continue to wrestle with his conscience, as should we all. So far the governor is losing his wrestling match with conscience. Some Christians make the mistake of hating the sin as well as the sinner. Doctor Kitzhaber makes the opposite mistake. Moral Relativists embrace both the sinner and the sin and the good doctor falls into the latter category. The governor finds it unconscionable that a two time murderer should lose his life at the hands of the State of Oregon, but sees no problem with the State of Oregon paying for the death of the innocent by assisted suicide and abortion on demand through the Oregon Health Plan. Taxpayers who object to assisted suicide or abortion are made to pay for these services regardless of deeply held religious beliefs. The exercise of conscience seems to be the prerogative of those who hold relativist views of truth, those that believe in objective truth are to be quiet and pay the bills.

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http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2011/11/gov_john_kitzhaber_oregon_deat.html

http://covertrationingblog.com/medical-ethics/how-to-sell-assisted-suicide