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An assisted suicide ruling creates deadly confusion State of Chaos.
Editor's note. This first appeared on National Review online and is reprinted with the author's permission.
A wise man once said, "Don't believe everything you read in the papers." That is good advice, especially for stories that involve assisted suicide.
Take the media's reporting about the lawsuit between the State of Oregon and United States Attorney General John Ashcroft (Oregon v. Ashcroft), which has generally been abysmal. With reporters generally looking with favor upon legalizing assisted suicide and perhaps motivated by a desire to simplify the complex and popularize arcane issues involved in the litigation, media reports almost always manage ...
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