I'm usually pretty much in line with conservative politics, but on this one I can't follow the party line. The Oregon law allows doctors to prescribe lethal doses of drugs to their terminally ill patients. The patients then have the choice to use the drugs to end their lives on their own terms. In my mind, this is a decision that a person should get to make on their own--the government should have no say one way or the other. Life or death is the final decision one has to make and it's a very personal and private decision.
This issue isn't over though. The Court ruled that the Attorney General did not have standing to over-rule the Oregon law...It did not rule directly on the issue at hand. We'll see this one again and again and again till someone acknowledges that we can criminalize doctors for their compassion or not, but the practice will continue regardless.
Supreme Court upholds Oregon's suicide law - Yahoo! News
