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Olympia, WA (LifeNews.com) -- The Initiative 1000 measure that would make Washington the second state, following Oregon, to legalize assisted suicide, is drawing expected opposition from pro-life groups and medical professionals. But the son of the proposal's spokesman and disability groups are opposed as well. Booth Gardner the millionaire former governor of the state, is the lead spokesman for the I-1000 assisted suicide proposal.Gardner suffers from Parkinson's disease, which is incurable but not fatal and he would not qualify to use the assisted suicide measure to take his own life. However, it prompted his desire to speak up for those...

MOUNTLAKE TERRACE -- Former Gov. Booth Gardner no longer runs the state, but now he'd like to be in control in a different way. He wants to be able to die on his own terms if his quality of life becomes seriously diminished, he said at a meeting of the Lynnwood Rotary Club on Thursday. Gardner, 72, has Parkinson's disease. For the past year, he has been promoting the controversial cause of physician-assisted suicide. "I recognize there are people here who won't like what I'm about to say, and others who will be with me implicitly," he said. "I respect...

SEATTLE (AP) — Doug Gardner, son of former two-term Democratic Gov. Booth Gardner, is headed to New York later this month as a state alternate delegate to the Republican National Convention. Shades of Ron Reagan, the Seattle-based son of the late President Reagan, who spoke at the Democratic National Convention in July. [snip]Gardner says that while stem-cell research is an important issue, it's not the main reason he's going. "I just needed to let people know that I didn't agree with the liberal policies that (my father) now embraces," said Gardner, 42. "I love Dad, and I'm with him as...