Euthanasia Group Urges Council to Take Position
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The City Council may weigh in next month on an issue far beyond its usual concerns with police budgets and street paving. A citizens group, the Paradise Euthanasia Society, wants the Butte County town to take a position on physician-assisted suicide.
Society member Dorothy Subke is asking that the council write to U.S. Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft, urging him to reconsider the Bush administration’s opposition to physician-assisted suicide.
Subke says the group believes Ashcroft is trying to undermine laws in Oregon, where terminally ill patients can legally end their lives with a doctor’s help.
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