CA Judge: No right to Assisted Suicide in California.

This article was published by Wesley Smith on his blog on July 24.

Wesley Smith

By Wesley Smith

Assisted suicide advocates care about results, not methods. If they can’t win in legislatures or in a popular vote, they try to have a judge impose their will.

Two such cases have been filed in California. One trial judge nixed the assertion that there is a right to assisted suicide. From the Times of San Diego story:

Superior Court Judge Gregory Pollack said the case was not about the “right to die” but whether a law making assisted suicides in California illegal was constitutional. Pollack said appellate courts and the U.S. Supreme Court have made a distinction between “letting a person die and making a person die.” “You can’t do that (make a person die) in California,” the judge said

Lest anyone cheer too loudly, the other case was filed in San Francisco–where anything can happen.

Of course there will be an appeal!