In ten days the legality of assisted suicide will be voted on in the state of Massachusetts. One of these days I will get my act together and write about this myself. In the meantime, check out the following links:

1. 5 Key Facts Bbout the Dangerous Assisted Suicide Ballot Measure in MA — Jennifer Popik, JD from the Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics tells you the key things you need to know about this measure.

2. Hippocrates’ Last Stand — a must-read from Greg Pfundstein on how we’re seeing a similar pattern develop for assisted suicide that we saw for abortion prior to Roe v. Wade.

3. Death With Dignity: Coming to a State Near You — an excellent article from Jennifer Lahl.

4. There is no “Right to Die” — Wesley Smith on the luducris notion that we have a “right” to die. As my friend Mark Pickup put it once: Death is not a right, it is an eventuality that will visit us all regardless of what any law may state. It is life that must be protected.

5. Finally. Last June at the National Right to Life Convention I sat in on an excellent session with Burke Balch, J.D., from NRL’s Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics, on the danger of assisted suicide, which I recorded and uploaded to YouTube here: