Category Archives: Compassion

Progress in the War Against Conscience Rights

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by Nancy Valko, RN

As I wrote in my 2016 blog “Conscientious Objection, Conscience Rights and Workplace Discrimination” :

The tragic cases of Nancy Cruzan and Christine Busalacchi , young Missouri women who were claimed to be in a “persistent vegetative state” and starved and dehydrated to death, outraged those of us in Missouri Nurses for Life and we took action.

Besides educating people about severe brain damage, treatment, cases of recovery and the radical change in medical ethics that could lead to the legalization of euthanasia, we also fought for healthcare providers’ rights against workplace discrimination for refusing to participate in deliberate death decisions. We talked to nurses who were threatened with termination.

Although Missouri had some protections against forcing participating in abortion, there were no statutes we could find where health care providers were protected against being forced to participate in deliberate death decisions. We were also told by some legislators that our chance of success was almost nil.

Nevertheless, we persisted and after years of work and enduring legislators watering down our original proposal to include lethal overdoses and strong penalties, Missouri Revised Statutes, Section 404.872.1 was finally signed into law in 1992. It states:

Refusal to honor health care decision, discrimination prohibited, when.

404.872. No physician, nurse, or other individual who is a health care provider or an employee of a health care facility shall be discharged or otherwise discriminated against in his employment or employment application for refusing to honor a health care decision withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining treatment if such refusal is based upon the individual’s religious beliefs, or sincerely held moral convictions.

(L. 1992 S.B. 573 & 634 § 7)

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HELP AN OLD MUSICIAN

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Lot’s of people are in need of help in today’s messed up world!

There’s an old musician among those in need!

I’d like to help that old musician get a portable oxygen concentrator & hearing aids.

If you are interested in helping him, too, please donate through Carrie’s Take. Just make a note that your donation is for an oxygen concentrator or hearing aids.

Thank you in advance for your wondrous gesture!

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THE MISSING STIMULUS PAYMENTS: A MYSTERY UNSOLVED

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So, where are the missing stimulus payments?  One can only wonder, it would seem – and many do.

I’ve been reading the articles and reviewing the IRS site.  I even listened to the IRS recording.  The answers are not there for more than a few people.  (Just read the articles if you are interested or have a doubt.)  Too many people haven’t a clue what the holdup is and haven’t a way to find out.

I personally know one person that should have received his stimulus payment direct deposit on April 29th, but he didn’t.  He doesn’t know why.  None of the possible reasons fit his situation.  He is a Social Security recipient, no one’s dependent, has a legitimate social security number, doesn’t owe child support and certainly doesn’t make anywhere near $75,000.  However, every day the “Get My Payment” says that they don’t have enough information (they’re working on that) or that he is not eligible.

It doesn’t matter that this person is not alone. 

It matters that there is an unsolved mystery that is adversely affecting people. 

It matters that these people have no way of finding out what is transpiring and why they haven’t received the stimulus payment or when they might – if ever.

Is it a glitch, did information fail to transfer properly from the Social Security Administration to the IRS, some other error or just an inconvenient delay because payments were going out to so many and some had to be last?  Only the IRS knows, if anyone does, but perhaps they haven’t a clue either as to why some have and some haven’t received the stimulus payment in a timely and promised fashion.

Maybe the politicians should stop playing politics for a while and worry more about where these missing stimulus payments are and what can be done to help fix whatever is causing the delay. 

It would actually be the right thing to do, put people on the right side of history and give actual meaning – for once – to all those political terms usually thrown around like sand in a dust storm.

It’s time to help those in need, who are still waiting and wondering.

Time to solve the mystery thus far unsolved!

Copyright © 2020 Carrie K. Hutchens

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Video captures Oklahoma airman’s kind act after seeing woman in need

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OKLAHOMA CITY — A random act of kindness caught on video shows Airman Jibril Jennings pulling over to help an elderly woman walking with her groceries along a busy Oklahoma road.

The viral video is already getting millions of views and has more than 40,000 shares.

Jennings doesn’t believe he did anything heroic, he said he just stopped to help a neighbor in need.

With her walker full of grocery bags, Janice Hall still had more than 2 miles to go in the blistering heat when Tinker Airman Jibril Jennings happened to drive by.

“There was a human being in the middle of the road that obviously needed help, and everyone was just driving past,” Jennings said.

“I went from the post office to Walmart, then from Walmart to my bank,” Hall said.

After pulling over and loading his car up with Hall’s groceries, the two took off, making their way toward Janice’s home and sparking a friendship that would touch thousands of strangers.

“I could tell it meant so much to her someone was helping out,” Jennings said.

What they didn’t know was that somebody else saw Jennings’s act of kindness. That person recorded the entire thing and posted it online, where it was soon shared and seen by millions.

“I told him he deserved a hug. I just gave him a great big old hug and thanked him. Then he went on his way,” Hall said.

But, true to how most heroes often react, Jibril said it was all in a day’s work, and that he was simply doing his job.

“I don’t think this is a hero’s moment. I think this is something anybody should be able to do. If this qualifies for a hero, anybody could be a hero,” he said.

Jibril and Janice said they plan to remain lifelong friends. He has even organized a group of airmen to come and help with repairs to her home.

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