Let the Voters Decide...Unless We Don't Like It

An AP story (link) says that a federal appeals court has backed Oregon's assisted suicide law.

Ruling on the nation's only law that allows doctors to assist in hastening the death of a patient, the court said U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft cannot sanction or hold Oregon doctors criminally liable for prescribing overdoses, as the state's voter-approved Death With Dignity Act allows.

Gee, when it's gay marriage, all we hear is "Let the voters decide."

But here, when the voters have decided, that's not good enough, and Ashcroft has to bring the full power of the Justice Department to stop the law from being observed.

After all, it is "compassionate" conservatism, not "consistent" conservatism.

M.

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The Ivory Madonna's story is told in Dance for the Ivory Madonna by Don Sakers.