The US Supreme Court is hearing arguments about Oregon's assisted-suicide law for the second time, and I have to admit that the notion of doctors using their training, education, and skills to end life rather than preserve it is completely foreign.
I distinctly recall a sermon years ago by a priest who warned in 1973 after Roe v Wade that sometime in the not-to-distant future, we will be having conversations about issues we never would have considered in polite company.
Since that time we have "protected" that despicable act of partial-birth abortion, and now we are arguing about whether states have a duty to protect one's will to die.
What is life if not hope? And what is hope without life? Where do we think we are going?
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I used to support assisted suicide laws, but then I saw how they progressed in the Netherlands -- where babies are being 'euthanized' by doctors without the consent of the parents.
If I'm not mistaken, John, there have also been charges of elderly being euthanized without the family's consent for the sake of hospital bed space. It is as the old saying goes, "Give them an inch ...."
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