Monday, July 12, 2004
Bush goes after Oregon's assisted suicide law again
Apparently once is not enough.
Bush wants the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider their ruling backing Oregon's Doctor Assisted Suicide Law.
For those that don't know, the citizens of Oregon have twiced passed a measure allowing terminally ill individuals to receive a prescription that would end their lives. Oregon's law was approved for the second time in 1994 by 60% of the state's electorate.
The Ninth split on a 2-1 decision last May. The Justice Department wants all eleven judges to hear the case in an effort to set aside the May ruling.
The priorities of this administration are completely screwed up. Tomorrow we hold a vote on an anti-gay marriage amendment to the US Constitution (that is doomed) but we can't vote on funding for homeland security. We have the President of the United States, the Vice President and the House Majority Leader all having to get attorneys for possible illegal doings and we have Ridge coming out warning about more terrorist attacks to come...but the priority of Justice is to make sure that dying people in pain have to stay alive against their will.
This is nuts.
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Bush wants the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider their ruling backing Oregon's Doctor Assisted Suicide Law.
For those that don't know, the citizens of Oregon have twiced passed a measure allowing terminally ill individuals to receive a prescription that would end their lives. Oregon's law was approved for the second time in 1994 by 60% of the state's electorate.
The Ninth split on a 2-1 decision last May. The Justice Department wants all eleven judges to hear the case in an effort to set aside the May ruling.
The priorities of this administration are completely screwed up. Tomorrow we hold a vote on an anti-gay marriage amendment to the US Constitution (that is doomed) but we can't vote on funding for homeland security. We have the President of the United States, the Vice President and the House Majority Leader all having to get attorneys for possible illegal doings and we have Ridge coming out warning about more terrorist attacks to come...but the priority of Justice is to make sure that dying people in pain have to stay alive against their will.
This is nuts.
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