The Bushies have dragged Oregon's "Death with Dignity" act before the Supreme Court in order to circumvent the will of the people and attempt to deny terminally ill people the right to end their suffering. They are using the lame approach of arguing that Doctors have no right to prescribe Federally controlled substances for a purpose other than that for which they were developed. Oh REALLY?
I am no legal scholar, but am I the only one who has noticed the totally obvious GREAT BIG HOLE in this argument? Has anyone heard of death by lethal injection? Does that not utilize "federally controlled substances" to pretty much do the same thing, which is KILL someone? Let me get this straight......the conservatives find no moral problem whatsoever in strapping down someone against their will and pumping drugs into their system for the express purpose of ending their lives, but if an otherwise law abiding citizen wishes to end their own personal pain and suffering, they suddenly have a problem?
It's this kind of morally twisted reasoning which makes it all the more clear that the conservative mindset has no more business being involved in government then a Catholic Priest has being alone with young children.
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The hole in the damned argument is the right wing control freaks wanting to force their freaking beliefs on the world.
If you don't want assisted death, then for Bob's sake just say no.
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