Acton Media Roundup
Were the actions of a New Orleans doctor and a pair of nurses in the wake of hurricane Katrina heroic or criminal?To Louisiana’s attorney general, the doctor and two nurses arrested this past week are murderers. But many in the medical community are outraged at the arrests, saying the three caregivers are heroes who faced unimaginable horrors as Hurricane Katrina flooded the city and trapped them and their patients.
Dr. Anna Pou and nurses Cheri Landry and Lori Budo were accused of being principals to second-degree murder in the deaths of four patients at Memorial Medical Center three days after Katrina hit. The charge carries a mandatory life sentence, though the state will turn the case over to the New Orleans prosecutor, who will decide whether to ask a grand jury to bring charges.
Pou, Landry and Budo are accused of killing four patients, ages 61 to 90, with morphine and a powerful sedative called Versed.
Dr. Samuel Gregg, Director of Acton’s Center for Academic Research, joined host Sean Herriott on Relevant Radio’s Morning Air show this morning to discuss this case and the larger issue of euthanasia. You can listen to the interview by clicking here (5.9 mb mp3 file).
To hear more from Dr. Gregg, you can download the latest audio release from this year’s Acton University: Christian Anthropology: Freedom and Virtue (7 mb mp3 file).
Sun, 11/30/2008 20:56
Satire, folks. Satire. We don’t want the bears to die.