Assisted Suicide

Death With Dignity's fund raising appeal states, "The team is coming together. The time-line is coming together. The plan is coming together ... and now the time has come." What? What time? This group wants financial support to identify the next state most likely to pass a law or initiative to legalize assisted suicide.

 

Members of this mafia include Compassion & Choices (formerly The Hemlock Society). Along with "Death With Dignity", they spearheaded the 2008 initiative that legalized assisted suicide in Washington state. Now, they're targeting states that they think are vulnerable.

 

In Montana, on December 5, 2009 (1 month after Washington legalized assisted suicide), District Judge Dorothy McCarter, ruled in favor of the constitutional challenge of Compassion & Choices. The suit was orchestrated by Compassion & Choices' legal director Kathryn Tucker. The suit argued that physician "aid-in-dying" a euphemism for assisted suicide, is a right under the Montana Constitution.

 

Oral arguments took place on September 2, 2009. Assistant Attorney General Anthony Johnston representing the state, stated, "That when the people of Montana adopted their constitution, they did not include physician-assisted suicide." He further stated that the legislature, not the courts, should change the law. The court's ruling, in this case, is pending.

 

Connecticut, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania all have legal challenges to legalize killing. Is your state next?

 

Hippocrates separated the physician role in 500 BC. Before Hippocrates physicians were both healers and killers. God help us if present day physicians blur the distinction between healer and killer. Of course Obama's health care bill has already done that, and through the Congress.