Video: Arkansas Exported Abortions at Outset of COVID
State documents show women traveled to Arkansas for abortions after the start of the COVID-19 outbreak.
Watch this video to learn more.
Sweden: Report Shows Elderly COVID Patients Denied Care
Troubling information out of Sweden shows elderly COVID-19 patients were denied care thanks to confusing guidelines from government health officials.
A recent article at BioEdge highlights the fact that half of Sweden’s COVID deaths were in nursing homes:
The health authorities have received many complaints about how elderly relatives were treated. A consistent theme is that nursing home residents with suspected Covid-19 were immediately placed on palliative care and given morphine and denied supplementary oxygen and intravenous fluids and nutrition. For many this was effectively a death sentence.
“People suffocated, it was horrible to watch. One patient asked me what I was giving him when I gave him the morphine injection, and I lied to him,” said Latifa Löfvenberg, a nurse. “Many died before their time. It was very, very difficult.”
The problem seems to be that health officials in Sweden gave doctors guidelines effectively encouraging them to ration care to prevent the healthcare system from being overwhelmed.
That led to elderly patients being placed on palliative care instead of being given treatment for COVID-19.
The article notes that giving morphine to a patient who has a respiratory illness — like COVID-19 — and then denying the patient additional oxygen effectively will kill the patient.
This story underscores why it is essential that our leaders and healthcare professionals value the sanctity of human life from conception until natural death.
Time and again we have heard stories about patients in Europe being denied care or actively euthanized thanks to bad government policies.
Similar stories have come out of states where assisted-suicide is legal here in America.
Being pro-life means believing human life is sacred from conception until natural death.
Just like abortion, euthanasia and assisted-suicide are murder, and they violate the sanctity of human life.
Lottery Director Floats Keno, Electronic Gambling at Legislative Meeting
On Friday the Arkansas Lottery’s director floated the idea of offering Keno and some form of electronic gambling at a legislative oversight committee meeting, according to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
The director reportedly told lawmakers,
“[T]he future requires a lot of touchless and remote purchasing, so we have considered an iLottery situation, and again, that is not imminent. . . . If we are in a situation where this [pandemic] continues and people are not wanting to go to stores and people are not wanting to [go to convenience stores]. That’s where we sell our tickets.
It’s worth mentioning lottery ticket sales surged in Arkansas during the COVID-19 pandemic this spring, and May was the Arkansas Lottery’s best month ever.
Clearly the Arkansas Lottery is doing just fine without Keno or electronic gambling — despite the coronavirus.
Lottery officials lobbied for Keno in 2013 and 2014 as part of an unsuccessful push to bring casino-style gambling to Arkansas under the state lottery.
Lawmakers soundly rejected that proposal.
In a typical Keno drawing, players choose upwards of 10 or 20 different numbers between 1 and 80. If their winning numbers are drawn, they win a prize.
But Keno is different from games like Powerball or MegaMillions in that drawings usually take place every few minutes rather than once a day.
Its fast pace makes Keno a popular casino game, because players can pick numbers and place bets over and over again in a short amount of time.
As a result, Keno often is played in a live room full of gamblers.
One of the reasons lawmakers rejected Keno a few years ago is that they did not want the state creating miniature casinos in bars, convenience stores, and gas stations as part of the Lottery.
That’s something that could still happen if Arkansas authorizes Keno or other forms of electronic gambling under the state-run lottery.