I will be testifying before a United States Senate subcommittee on Thursday about the federal role in the assisted suicide debate. My focus will be on the vertical cliff off of which the Netherlands has fallen since it began permitting euthansia. Also testifying will be Rita Marker, head of the International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide, and Diane Coleman, founder of Not Dead Yet. Kathryn Tucker, the lawyer for the Hemlock Society, now named “Compassion and Choices,” will testify for assisted suicide. No doubt, she will stress state’s rights, ignoring the profound irony that she once tried unsuccessfully to obliterate the right of any state to prevent assisted suicide by having the Supreme Court declare an assisted suicide Roe v Wade.
When the Committee puts the testimony on-line, I will add a link. Wish me luck!
