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Interview with Howard Dean (Oregon Public Broadcasting, 8/20/2003)

Interviewer: When you're here on Sunday do you plan to talk about some Oregon specific issues?

Howard Dean: Well I'm certainly going to talk about the Healthy Forests Initiative, which the president is plugging.... Because the president tried to use the forest fires to justify cutting a lot of old growth timber and he went too far....

Interviewer: Let me ask you about one other issue that is unique to Oregon and that is physician-assisted suicide.... In general where do you stand on physician-assisted suicide and Oregon's vote on that issue?

Howard Dean: ... I think this a very private, personal decision and I think individual physicians and patients have the right to make that private decision. I am very amused by the Right Wing--including the president and administration--who talk about liberty but then decide they're going to scrutinize everyone's behavior and tell them what they can and cannot do. There can't be a much more personal decision an individual makes than how to die and I think that is a personal decision left to individuals, their physicians and families.

Have you heard the new motto of the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party: Nature, liberty, and the pursuit of oblivion. Posted by Paul Jaminet at August 23, 2003 10:11 PM