Congressmen Have a Right to Kill Themselves?
"America wasn't founded on one homogeneous moral view. We have competing moral views."
Democrat Rep. Gerry Connolly of Virginia spoke these words Monday to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform as he defended what he sees as the right to kill yourself — and do so in collaboration with a licensed physician working with the imprimatur of the state.
The city council of the District of Columbia enacted the law in question in December. It authorizes doctors to prescribe what it politely calls a "covered medication" specifically "for the purpose of ending a person's life."
In plain English, that's poisoning.
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