Dr. Death Has Another Day In Court
U.S. NEWS AND WORLD REPORT, March 20—No jury will convict Jack Kevorkian for helping a suffering person die, said an article in U.S. News and World Report. But they may convict him for first-degree murder.
The trial was scheduled to open Mar. 22 and this time Kevorkian is charged with first-degree murder — not assisted suicide — in connection with the videotaped death of Thomas Youk. CBS's 60 Minutes aired the tape in November. “If he is convicted,” the report said, “Kevorkian could face life in prison.” “If Kevorkian is acquitted, opponents — and even some supporters — of assisted suicide worry that the jury will send the message that it's OK for physicians to administer fatal drugs to patients,” said the magazine. “The reason: This time, Kevorkian isn't merely arguing that doctors should be allowed to assist dying patients; he's arguing they should be the ones to do the deed, as he did when he injected the 52-year-old Youk with deadly drugs.”
Pro-Lifers Say Bush Isn't Pro-Life
MIAMI HERALD, March 21—A report in the Miami Herald said, “The decision by the nation's largest anti-abortion group to certify George W. Bush as “pro-life” has angered some abortion opponents who say the Texas governor does not deserve the label. Bush, early favorite for the Republican presidential nomination in 2000, “supports abortion, in all three trimesters, in cases of rape, incest or threat to the mother's life,” said the newspaper. The National Right to Life Committee last week urged GOP presidential contenders who oppose abortion not to attack each other but instead to focus on Vice President Al Gore, the likely Democratic nominee and an abortion rights supporter, it said. “There is no way [Bush's] stance can be described as pro-life,” Colleen Parro of the Republican National Coalition for Life told the newspaper.The National Right to Life Committee, with 3,000 chapters nationwide, issued a statement to clarify what it said was a misunderstanding about Bush's position on abortion, said the paper.
