The Fundamental Question That Is in Dispute.

"Physician participation in assisted suicide or euthanasia may have a profound harmful emotional toll on the involved physicians. ... Doctors must take responsibility for causing the patient's death. There is a huge burden on conscience, tangled emotions and a large psychological toll on the participating physicians."

From a report in the spring edition of Issues in Law & Medicine, written by Kenneth R. Stevens, M.D., vice president of Physicians for Compassionate Care (See story, page 11.)

"Figures released by the Office of National Statistics [in England] showed dozens of babies had been aborted because they had club feet, webbed fingers or other minor deformities."

From the Daily Post, May 29

"And here we come to the fundamental question in dispute; that question can be described in different ways: whether all human beings have a right not to be killed; whether membership in the human species is enough to confer rights; whether we accept the existence of a category of human non-persons. Opponents of abortion, embryo-destructive research, euthanasia, and infanticide believe that all human begins should be protected from being killed. They believe, further, that to the extent America fails to provide this protection it betrays its own founding principles. The party of death, on the other hand, believes that some human beings deserve that protection and some do not."

From The Party of Death, by Ramesh Ponnuru

I began this editorial the Tuesday after Memorial Day. Driving in I listened to a talk show host plead that we consider every day Memorial Day. She meant by this that we should constantly remember those who have served our great nation, not just the last Monday in May, but 365 days a year.