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Quoting Leviticus ("Ye shall therefore keep my statutes ... which if a man do, he shall live by them"; xviii:5) the Rabbis in the Talmud state, "He shall live by them, but not die by them" (Yoma 85b). Dr. [Ezekiel Emanuel], an ethicist and advisor to President Obama on health care issues, stated, "Health services should not be guaranteed to individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens. An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia. Dr. Emanuel has begun his personal descent upon the "slippery slope." Horrific as this may be to consider, if we follow his approach our society could continue his personal fall, plummeting us ever downward toward adding other groups to his "death list", as has already occurred in...
Walters takes a look at how in response to the new strategies of migration control that states in Europe are pursuing, political activists are improvising new forms of protest. Just as in the US, immigrants are demanding to be recognized as human beings endowed with inalienable rights that they do not give up, even as they cross borders arbitrarily established by nation-states. He also examines the political intervention associated with the noborder network, which acts in solidarity with migrants and refugees, and calls for the opening of all borders.
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