The constitutional system works, if we let it. -- Big brother Ashcroft need not fret. - Or try bureaucratic, authoritarian methods to change it to suit HIS moral standards.
Perhaps I shouldn't have interjected, because I was using the term "abuse" to conform with your opinion, whereas I hold that any sort of physician-assisted suicide is an abuse of life.
Thats a fine moral holding, but I hope you agree that it cannot be a basis for constitutional law. Do you?
That being clarified, your point was that there was no abuse in Holland, or that it couldn't be verified, and now that abuse has been cited, you claim that the offenders would be punished, when in fact the same sources that have been cited show that there has been no or very minor punishment leveled against those conducting the abuse.
-- Yep. That seems to be the way the people in Holland want to run their own lives, or deaths..
Do you object legally to their right to do so, and what principle do you believe in that gives you that right?
Actually, I do think that protecting innocent life is one of the highest duties of government, but that goes into a miriad of issues I don't have the energy to discuss right now on this forum, since I'm in the midst of quite an exhaustive discussion of the topic on another forum right now. You may need to be a member to participate, but you are more than welcome to any time you wish.