High Court Clashes Over Assisted Suicide
High Court Clashes Over Assisted Suicide
I've never had a chance to comment with my beliefs on this blog, but they are simple:
The Federal government should not stick their noses into the private decisions of a dying patient or their family.
We have such a strange association with death, the last big case being the Terri Schiavo one in FLA.
Call me crazy, but I do not want US Congressmen standing in my hospital room telling my family that they cannot follow my wishes, and I do not want the federal government telling doctors that they cannot ease the pain of a terminal patient or allow them to die peacefully without pain.
And what pisses me off is that the new chief justice is trying to frame this in a rediculous way in that he says that doctors that prescribe lethal doses of say, morphine, is undermining the federal regulation on drugs and the war on drugs.
Of course, Souter had to remind him that the law as stated when it comes to that has to do with drug DEALERS.
I wonder what his thoughts are on our failure to stop Afghan smack coming into the US.
2 comments:
I share the same opinion as you. In fact, my views on death are on par with my views on life. I'm pro choice. The patient's choice that is, not the government's.
Good post. I don't know what it is with the Far Right's obsession with steamrolling their way into people's most painful personal decisions. They need to either practice their own rhetoric about "limited government" and "states' rights" or shut the fuck up.
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