The day will come when democrats will regret they pushed for this.
Few conservatives would choose suicide. While those liberals in Eugene and Portland will likely thin their herd, thus thinning their non-reproducing voting block.
Look for Oregon to be a solid red state by 2012.
"Few conservatives would choose suicide. While those liberals in Eugene and Portland will likely thin their herd, thus thinning their non-reproducing voting block.
Look for Oregon to be a solid red state by 2012."
You do realize that in the years they've had assisted suicide, very, very few people have chosen it -- maybe 25 per year on average? One of the predictions when it was enacted was either that people would stampede to kill themselves or doctors would do it for them. Neither has happened.
Good point! liberals are thining themselves out at both the beginning and the end of life... look for the country to get more conservative, which is the only bright side I can see to this mess.
If you look at rankings of states by per-capita suicides (see http://www.suicidology.org/associations/1045/files/2002statedatapg.pdf) you'll notice that red states generally have higher suicide rates.