One tactic of the right-to-die movement is to point to illegally assisted suicides and use this criminal behavior to justify legalizing it. Aside from the fact that this method negates the rule of law in all areas, it also shifts the focus from the reasons why the laws are there in the first place.
Yesterday's LifeSite article on Vancouver euthanasia activist Russell Ogden illustrates this well:
Ogdens continuing research reveals that euthanasia is far from the warm fuzzy Hallmark card experience most euthanasia activists would have the public believe. Ogdens 1994 masters thesis showed that many botched acts of euthanasia resulted in horrific acts of violence. Martindale writes that half of the 34 euthanasia cases Ogden studied were botched and resulted in increased suffering.
Continued at Marlowe's Shade
