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From Wesley J. Smith, (via email, thanks, Leslie...)

By Bobby Schindler

Here is more on California Bill AB 2747 by disability rights advocate Marilyn Golden. Thankfully, this bill, which is being sponsored by California Assemblymembers Patty Berg and Lloyd Levine is being exposed for what it really is, a backdoor attempt to legalize physician assisted suicide. From the article:

"This bill represents a change in strategy by Compassion and Choices after three years of defeat. Every year since 2005, the group tried to legalize assisted suicide in California. Each year, strong bi-partisan opposition defeated that legislation. On a new tack, this bill would pave the way for their hoped-for future legalization of assisted suicide."

Wesley has also written about the potential dangers of this bill and here Marilyn Golden does the same.

"AB 2747 would mandate that doctors discuss with patients still a year from death, unusual end-of-life courses of action including voluntarily starving and dehydrating themselves, which is not even a medical treatment."

This bill would also define terminal illness as one year to live.

"To mandate this discussion a year in advance of death is shockingly early. It is not unusual for a 'terminal' patient to dramatically outlive her terminal prognosis by many years. To force such a discussion on a patient at that time is not fair to the patient. One must ask what end is served by this timing."

Hopefully, this bill will fail for what it is - a cowardly and dishonest attempt to legalize doctor assisted suicide.

posted by Wesley J. Smith @ 6:25 AM

If Frist jumps into the race, the libs will try to tie Terri's Legacy to him, using the old lie that most decent Americans wanted to see innocent Terri killed by the State, and abhor any who would save her.

On the Republican side, everybody is waiting for Frist to make up his mind. The heart surgeon is rich and powerful, and his name recognition is high across the state.

But he brings some baggage on the gubernatorial flight: He was tightly aligned with the George W. Bush administration, not a popular thing these days. He drew national rebukes for weighing in with a medical opinion in the case of Terri Schiavo, based only on a videotape and the political winds. And in an early autobiography, Frist confessed to adopting cats from animal shelters and experimenting on them as part of his medical training.......

Governor's race could be ladies' affair

8mm