Senate Health Care Bill is Assisted Suicide Friendly

Bioethicist Wesley J. Smith says the new Senate health care reform bill contains another problem apart form abortion funding. The new measure is friendly to assisted suicide in that it contains language supporting physicians who don't want to kill their patients but promotes the practice nonetheless. "[I]t is a conscience clause protecting medical professionals who don't commit assisted suicide. There is no prohibition on promoting it or having it paid for under the plan. . . . If assisted suicide, or even euthanasia, are legally considered forms of 'end of life' care in a particular state–as it is now in Oregon, Washington, and Montana–it seems to me that the area’s community health insurance option would be required to provide access to it under this clause. How else can the provision be read?" LifeNews