Vermont Gov. Candidate Vows to Legalize Assisted Suicide if Elected

Vermont Gov. Candidate Vows to Legalize Assisted Suicide if Elected: The Democratic candidate for governor of Vermont has told a pro-euthanasia lobby group that he would push to decriminalize the actions of those who help others kill themselves. 'I support end of life choices,' said gubernatorial candidate Peter Shumlin in a September interview.

Shumlin sympathetically described an encounter he had with a cancer-stricken woman who expressed a wish to be able to kill herself legally. 'I can't imagine in my wildest dreams why government would get in between that woman ... and her doctor,' he said. Shumlin highlighted that his Republican opponent, Brian Dubie, opposes assisted suicide as well as abortion, which the Democrat vowed he would 'defend until my dying day.'

Editor: Oh, the irony of that last statement.