"This will be marked as the day the soul of America joined forces with all the evil empires of history."
This kind of talk reminds me of the crazy over the top rhetoric about the Elian Gonzalez case.
If you're going to quote me, please don't quote me out of context. I explained the nature of that statement in the next paragraph.
That said, if the government of this country does accept, condone, and then sanction euthanasia for people who don't live up to a state definition of a quality life (even if that person is responsive), you don't consider that evil?
The evil empires I alluded to were Nazi Germany and the Stalinist Soviet Union, both evil empires who employed state-sanctioned euthanasia per state definitions of what they considered lives-of-value.