I suppose under the Ninth Amendment that individual states could make assisted suicide/euthanasia legal, and, by the same token, they could also make murder, rape, robbery and arson legal. However, to say that any of these crimes would have been considered protected “rights” by the Founding Fathers is absurd.
“I suppose under the Ninth Amendment that individual states could make assisted suicide/euthanasia legal, and, by the same token, they could also make murder, rape, robbery and arson legal. However, to say that any of these crimes would have been considered protected “rights” by the Founding Fathers is absurd.”
Not at all. First we have to decide what are crimes. I agree that rape murder etc are a crime. But suicide only affects you directly and it is clear to me that if falls under the right to self determination.
After all who are you to try to tell me what to do with my life? Are you going to stand over a cancer victem and tell them they have to suffer the tortures of hell for a few more weeks because you say it’s best for them, or because you say so?
That sounds like the mind set of a lefty or a sadist.