[Torie]

Well, if you think euthanasia is murder or subject to serious abuse, than of course it is a federal concern. If you are more agnostic about the issue, than perhaps you want to allow the states to experiment. Is it a prudential issue, and an issue that is influenced by one's a priori assumptions. To drape the constitution around it is misguided. I get so tired of folks invoking their own views of what the constitution means as a trump card on public policy issues, rather than just discussing the merits.

[NittanyLion]

Well, if you think euthanasia is murder or subject to serious abuse, than of course it is a federal concern.

How so? Murder is prosecuted by the states, with the exception of so-called "hate crimes".

[Ohioan]

Murder is not a Federal concern. It has always been a State concern. If Keyes thinks Euthenasia is murder, he may do so; but that would not give him any say in Oregon.

The most difficult thing for most people to fully grasp is that there are legitimate limitations on power. You cannot change the rules, simply because you do not like the way other people are exercising freedoms that they have the right to exercise.

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