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Supreme Court Allows Prosecution of Surgical Anesthesia Use
In a 6-3 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court last week ruled that doctors can be blocked from using anesthesia on the operating table.
Ten minutes after the Supreme Court decision was announced, the Thug Enforcement Agency began raids on clinics and hospitals in California, one of 11 states that legalized the use of anesthesia for surgical procedures. Among the patients arrested was a woman having a craniotomy at Mercy Hospital in Santa Cruz.
"Fortunately, the surgeon had removed the brain tumor and begun stitching when the agents yanked the IV from my arm," said the woman, who could not remember her name or age. "The pain was excruciating, but at least the anesthesiologist rode in the police van with me and managed to hold my skull together throughout the fingerprinting and strip-search."
Agents also interrupted a caesarian delivery of a high-risk, premature baby. The 32-week fetus was pronounced dead at the local jail where a partial-birth felony was added to the mother's drug charges.
"A handful of people want to see not just anesthesia, but all drugs legalized," said Neeanne Derthal of Hug-Free America, dismissing California's Compassionate Use Act as "public relations for curare addicts."
Curare (tubocurarine) is given in small quantities with general anesthesia to facilitate safe surgical procedures.
Lawyers for the U.S. Justice Department argued to the Court that most anesthetics are sold by well-financed drug gangs who cause the suffering of many Americans. "Better to trade with the down-home poppy farmers in Afghanistan and use opiates for surgery," their report concluded.
"No American has ever suffered from the use of our products," countered Lotta Bux, spokesperson for Mfizer and Co. "The heart attacks and strokes caused by our arthritis drugs have all been sudden and immediately fatal." Bux added that the company regrets the loss of its surgical anesthesia market, but is well-positioned with its standard home-use heroin line and is awaiting FDA approval for its new poppy-based tincture, "Flower Power."
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