Killing States’ Rights
Re “Agency Won’t Back Off Assisted Suicide Ruling,” May 25: Justice Department lawyers declared that there is not “a legitimate medical purpose” to physician-prescribed suicide, which Oregon voters passed as law on two separate occasions. The law prescribes that two physicians must concur that death is imminent, within six months, and the patient must be of sound mind.
What about a legitimate humanitarian purpose? It seems that Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft has his own agenda regarding states’ rights.
Tom Hamman
Huntington Beach
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