Image Credit: BC Nurses Union BC nurses have reached a breaking point after years of unsafe conditions, rising violence in the workplace and a government that wouldn’t listen. Now they are on the picket line fighting to be heard. Last week, nurses began job action with a 72-hour strike notice, refusing non-essential overtime and stepping back from non-nursing duties. As of Tuesday, they have escalated to picket lines for the first time in decades. This moment was avoidable. It is the result of years of unanswered concerns from the frontline workers who keep our hospitals running. Nurses have been raising the same concerns for years: unsafe staffing levels, rising violence on the job, and a workload no single person should have to carry. None of it is new, and none of it should have taken a strike vote to get the government's attention. "Nurses are exercising their legal right to job action, but it shouldn’t have had to come to this," said Kiel Giddens, MLA for...
There isn;t a plan to do this. The article itself says that this is a non-starter, a notion that emerged from a doctor speculating on the ethics of what to do with a child whose condition confined them to a life time of suffering. There is no plan fo=r MAID for babies. At all. Even the doctors most concerned about this, the pro-life doctors quoted in the article, talk about this fact.
ReplyDeleteOne question I would have for C@C and others that are both pro-life and pro-market, is what role do you believe government has for supporting families who have children with conditions that cause them a life time of suffering. It's much easier to have something like "MAID for Babies" off the table if a family knows that they will receive everything they need to care for this child and that the child will be given every support for a life as free from pain as possible.
I never see those kinds of things talked about by free market supporting publications.