Schiavo Lead Neurologist Promoter of Physician Assisted Suicide

Most of us already suspected that Dr. Ronald Cranford was agenda driven. Here's some convincing evidence that is indeed the case.

Years before he categorized Terri Schindler Schiavo in the persistent vegetative state, which led to her death by dehydration, neurologist Dr. Ronald Cranford was building the case for removing feeding tubes from society’s vulnerable.

"…The United States has thousands or tens of thousands of patients in vegetative states; nobody knows for sure exactly how many," Cranford wrote in a 1997 Minneapolis Star Tribune opinion piece titled: When a feeding tube borders on the barbaric. (WorldNetDaily. Com, March 23, 2005). "But before long, this country will have several million patients with Alzheimer’s dementia. The challenges and costs of maintaining vegetative state patients will pale in comparison to the problems presented by Alzheimer’s disease.

The answer, he suggested, was physician-assisted suicide."

Alleged to have participated in states like California without courtesy of a legal license, Cranfeld openly applauds European values that embrace euthanasia. Countries like Belgium, where experts believe that 10 percent of all deaths now result from euthanasia or by drugs administered by doctors to hasten death.

He blames "right-to-lifers" and "disability groups" for discouraging families from making the choice for euthanasia.

Hardly an unbiased assessor of the facts, this guy has a single minded view for the infirmed. When in doubt choose euthanasia. With Cranford's background, it's inconceivable how Judge"Dredd"Greer could have given his testimony and weight whatsoever. His agenda is as long as your arm and his judgements are clouded by a strong ideological bent toward death as a first rather than a last option.