Vermont: Physician-Assisted Suicide Bill Voted Down

According to the Burlington Free Press ( burlingtonfreepress.com ) article, "House votes down physician-assisted death bill" by Ross Sneyd (AP March 21, 2007),

"The Vermont House voted down an initiative Wednesday that would have given terminally ill patients the ability to hasten their deaths with the help of a physician."

It was said,

"They rejected arguments that the procedure amounted to suicide. “Suicide is really an act of desperation,” said Rep. William Frank, D-Underhill. Someone who chose to take advantage of the law would be someone who wanted to continue living but who sought the medicine to give him or her the choice of ending life if it became unbearable. "

“It is important to have choice,” Frank said. “No one should dictate what these values should be.”

No matter the spin -- to take one's own life IS suicide!



Whatever the reason for doing so -- it IS suicide!



To try to call it anything else -- IS an agenda in the making!



What people need to keep in mind is...



Suicide has existed as a "choice" throughout history. That won't change with the house voting down this initiative in Vermont. It hasn't taken the "choice" from people about being able to kill themselves, but it might save some who don't want to be killed off. After all, it is only a step from assisted-suicide to obligated death and the right for others to kill us off. If there is any doubt, look at Texas and the "Futile Care Law". That should say it all!