Hearings begin in California Assembly on assisted suicide proposal

SACRAMENTO, Calif. Catholic News Service reports that California could become the second state , after Oregon, to legalize physician-assisted suicide. Opponents, many of them disabled, have stronly opposed the bill, arguing that it is a slippery slope. At the bottom, they said, are people who doctors help to die but who were never asked if they wanted to die.

A slippery slope argument is not needed to oppose this. Euthansia of even competent and willing patients is wrong. And the slope goes farther down than the opponents suggest.