When you play baseball, you have to get to first base and second base and third base before you can get to home plate. The same is true in this situation. Assisted suicide is not home plate. Assisted suicide is first base, or shall I say second base. Abortion was really first base, the ending of life in the womb.
Assisted suicide is second base, helping the chronic and terminally ill end their lives.
Home plate is euthanasia, active euthanasia, ending the lives of those whom we feel no longer measure up, no longer have the quality of life we think they should have. And so we end their lives without their permission. The country of Holland has been practicing assisted suicide for about 12 years already. So if we want to peer into the future a bit and see where this assisted suicide issue leads, all we have to do is look at them. Recently the Dutch government did a study of over 8,000 cases in which a doctor prescribed a lethal dose of medication.