{"id":33089,"date":"2015-10-09T15:00:25","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T23:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/?p=33089"},"modified":"2015-10-09T06:10:54","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T14:10:54","slug":"government-accepted-physician-assisted-suicide-growing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/doctrine\/government-accepted-physician-assisted-suicide-growing\/","title":{"rendered":"Government accepted, physician-assisted, suicide growing legally"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nAssisted Suicide Legal in Dark Blue States, Illegal in Red States, & Under Consideration in Other Colors per NickCT<\/em><\/p>\n

COGwriter<\/a><\/p>\n

There are concerns that physician-assisted suicide will become legal across the USA as it was ‘legalized’ in California this week:<\/p>\n

This week, California Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill that legalizes assisted suicide<\/a>, making it the fourth state in the country to accept the dangerous practice, following Oregon, Washington and Vermont. In a letter to the California General Assembly,<\/a><\/span>Gov. Brown said he signed the legislation because he would not want to live his final days in pain caused by a terminal disease.He said, \u201cThe crux of the matter is whether the State of California should continue to make it a crime for a dying person to end his life, not matter how great his pain or suffering.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, pro-life activists, religious leaders and national pro-life and disabled rights organizations are outraged by his decision and have already vowed to try and overturn the law.\u00a0http:\/\/www.lifenews.com\/2015\/10\/07\/catholics-upset-with-catholic-governor-jerry-brown-legalizing-assisted-suicide-in-california\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Perhaps it’s not surprising that the best arguments against assisted suicide \u2014 especially\u00a0advanced by such liberal icons as E.J. Dionne<\/a> and\u00a0Victoria Kennedy<\/a> \u2014 are progressive. Liberals are generally happy for government to restrict individual freedoms to prevent violence and killing. They are also generally skeptical of the idea that choice leads to genuine freedom, especially for those without power on the margins of our culture.<\/p>\n

Indeed, liberal states such as Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey and, until this week, California had all recently rejected such legislation. Britain’s attempt to pass an assisted-suicide bill also went down to overwhelming defeat.<\/p>\n

To get a victory in California, its supporters were forced to bypass the regular legislative process (which defeated the bill) and instead consider the bill in a healthcare special session, and under unusual rules. This context is as telling as it is disturbing.<\/p>\n