Yahoo! News - White House Wants Suicide Law Blocked: "The Bush administration asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to block the nation's only law allowing doctors to help terminally ill patients die more quickly."
We lost a close friend to cancer last year. We think the decision to intervene in this case was inhumane. We note that on federalism grounds, conservatives should be outraged. We wonder whether Justice Rehnquist's confrontation with cancer will shape his attitude towards the rights of the terminally ill.
