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 In his article "Alfie Evans Must Die So the Nanny State May Live," John Zmirak writes - "I was trying to explain the Alfie Evans case to a friend. And finding it hard to do it. Not without resorting to bleak theories that allege the darkest motives. In case you’ve missed it, Alfie Evans is a chronically ill British child whose parents want to remove him from a Liverpool hospital to try alternative treatments. And the hospital is defying them. Denying him further treatment. Leaving him to die. "'So this is just the National Health Service, isn’t it? They're trying to cut costs.' So she said, trying to make sense of the case. "Well, no. Not directly. Yes, rationing is a huge part of government health care. But it’s also part of private insurance. Chances are, your plan won't cover elective bariatric surgery (though that might extend your life). There are also limits to how much it will pay even for directly life-saving treatments. We live in a world of limited resources. "Yes, the death of Charlie Gard, and the planned death of Alfie Evans, are partly the fruit of socialism. But not directly. After all, as some observers pointed out online, the Italian government offered to fly poor little Alfie in and care for him. It also has socialized medicine. In theory socialists could embrace the sanctity of life. Even as they trample over property rights and crucial liberties." But that's not in the nature of socialism: it denies that man is created in the image of God and thus has the God-given right to life. Socialism replaces this with a cold "cost control" policy of balancing the worth of the patient's potential future labor versus the cost to maintain this "human resource." This reduces man to merely a cog in the machinery of the state. Get the whole story: read the full article & get our free weekly newsletter: subscribe below! |