New Jersey governor signs law allowing terminally ill patients to end their lives
The law, Medical Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act, will go into effect on Aug. 1.
This is sanctioned suicide. New York says they will probably follow. Doctors can make mistakes; they're not God. We shouldn't be abandoning people at their most vulnerable moments.
In 1993, Jack Kevorkian served two jail sentences on charges that he had violated the law against assisting in a suicide. Times have changed in this liberal world.
How can they do this? People must have a choice. With this law they don't have one. What happens if the doctor made a mistake and they're forced into this? People should be able to do what they want to do when it comes to their own lives!
ReplyDeleteMy heart goes out to any family struggling with this devastating problem. That said-slippery slope. We are becoming a throw away society in many ways. Babies are not even viewed as human by some of our law makers right now. How far a stretch will it be until "the right to die" becomes "It's time for you to die".
ReplyDeleteThis is not an issue I get all worked up about. Morphine, dispensed by Hospice is assisting suicide all the time.
ReplyDeleteTo keep people alive for a principle is a crime in itself.