In the beginning, America chose life. That right is enshrined in our founding documents. But things have changed-drastically. Today, the notion of death as a right, the ultimate choice, and a cure-all, permeates American society. Life is no longer the moral option-death is.
Youth suicide is at an all-time high.
Laws once protected human beings' inalienable right to life. Now they permit the elimination of those deemed unworthy to live. And in the name of compassion, doctors trained to heal and prolong life are shortening and even snuffing it out altogether. Killing the patient as the cure is becoming an acceptable medical procedure. And in a Washington state survey, more than one in four doctors anonymously admitted they had been asked to help a patient die.