NP - Ashcroft to Pursue Suicide Doctors

[barbara100 at jps.net]

I think it's pretty interesting that some of our politicians care so much for the terminally ill and the unborn, and work so hard to protect them, but don't bat an eye when hundreds of viable souls are blown to bits *accidentally* and 7.5 MILLION LAY ON THE BRINK OF STARVATION!!!!

Makes a person wonder what's going on in their minds, ya know...    




Original Message:
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From: David Morris fqmorris at hotmail.com
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2001 15:42:51 -0600
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: NP - Ashcroft to Pursue Suicide Doctors


http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011106/ts/assisted_suicide_5.html

Ashcroft to Pursue Suicide Doctors
By KATHERINE PFLEGER, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - Attorney General John Ashcroft (news - web sites) gave 
federal drug agents the go-ahead Tuesday to take action against doctors who 
help terminally ill patients die, a move aimed at undercutting Oregon's 
unique assisted-suicide law.

The decision, outlined in a letter to Drug Enforcement Administration chief 
Asa Hutchinson, would allow the revocation of drug licenses of doctors who 
participate in an assisted suicide using a federally controlled substance.

Ashcroft's letter reverses a June 1998 order by his predecessor, Janet Reno 
(news - web sites), who barred agents from moving against doctors who used 
Oregon's law.



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