"KILL THE BILL, NOT THE ILL";

A Report from the Front Lines of the Assisted-Suicide Fight in California

BY Wesley J. Smith

June 21, 1999, Vol. 4, No. 38




Sacramento, California


It was every liberal's dream of diverse, grass-roots political activism: more than a hundred people demonstrating angrily in front of the California state capitol against pending legislation that threatened people who are poor, who are disabled, and who are vulnerable. Disability-rights activists in wheel-chairs marched in solidarity with white medical professionals, alongside African-American clergy and advocates for the poor, next to Latino migrant farm workers and Catholics praying the rosary.

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