Supreme Court Upholds Oregon Suicide Law
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court upheld Oregon's one-of-a-kind physician-assisted suicide law Tuesday, rejecting a Bush administration attempt to punish doctors who help terminally ill patients die.
Justices, on a 6-3 vote, said that a federal drug law does not override the 1997 Oregon law used to end the lives of more than 200 seriously ill people. New Chief Justice John Roberts backed the Bush administration, dissenting for the first time.
This is another example of the current culture of death. States rights is used when we want to allow death. But when a state wants to restrict abortion, the courts overrule saying federal law trumps states rights.
Lord have mercy.
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It has become so easy to rationalize every slip in the moral order as a step forward into the world of personal freedom. Just how free can one be when the government has the ability to decide who lives and who dies based on a concept of personal or social worth to be administered by some "expert"? Is that freedom? Is that the liberty that the Founders spoke of and our fathers died for? Is that the freedom that Christ died for; that all men may commit suidcide, be it assisted or not?
Is this not truly evil? Does this not sound like the work of the Father of Lies? We had better wake up and smell the flowers while we still have noses to do so.
God, heal our wounds.
Amen.
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