Because Idaho doesn't have a specific law about assisted suicide, euthanasia activists are now focusing on that state.
Alex Schadenberg, executive director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition (EPC), tells OneNewsNow a familiar voice recently stated the pro-euthanasia case.
"Kathryn Tucker, who is the legal counsel for Compassion [and] Choices, made a presentation to the Idaho Medical Association, trying to tell them that because there is no specific law on assisted suicide in Idaho that...doctors could just go ahead and just do this," he reports.
Alex SchadenbergBut the EPC executive director points out that Tucker's claim is simply not true, as Idaho common law prohibits assisted suicide.
"Idaho doesn't have something specific like that, but it does deal with it under their homicide provision," he explains. "Therefore, it is illegal in Idaho, and a doctor who would go ahead with this would very likely be prosecuted and go to jail...as they should."
Schadenberg suspects the pro-suicide group is trying to find a doctor to test the law "because if the courts were to either treat it extremely leniently, or if the court were to say that Compassion [and] Choices' legal counsel was correct, then of course that would mean that other doctors could go ahead and do it."
He wonders why the organization's officials continue to lie to the government and the public if they want acceptance of assisted suicide.
Contact: Charlie Butts
Source: OneNewsNow
Date Published: August 17, 2010
