The American Euthanasia Movement Is Running a Political Con Game

Once a society accepts killing as an answer to human suffering, the caste of killables never stops expanding. Thus, in the Netherlands and Belgium, doctors not only euthanize the terminally ill, but also the elderly "tired of life," the disabled, and the mentally ill.

American advocates respond to these facts on the ground -- not a slippery slope argument -- by arguing that we are different here. After all, they note, those things are not happening in Oregon.

To which I always say, "Not yet....