September 21, 2011
Cardinal Sean O’Malley of Boston is asking lawyers, judges and others in the legal profession to fight Death With Dignity, a ballot question that would legalize physician-assisted suicide in Massachusetts, according to this Associated Press story.
The ballot question is being proposed for consideration in 2012 in both Massachusetts and Vermont by groups working to make lethal drugs available to terminally ill people, as an end-of-life care option. Read more about the movement here.
But the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops says that physician-assisted suicide really does not “enhance choices or freedom for people with serious health conditions,” and lists the reasons in its statement released in June, “To Live Each Day With Dignity.”
