The Detroit Press recently reported that the Jack Kevorkian, the Dr. who assisted with approximately 130 suicides in an eight year period (1990-98), is running for a Congressional seat in Michigan.
One of his platforms that he’s using to be voted into Congress is fighting for the right to die via the Ninth Amendment.
He believes that the Ninth Amendment protects rights that aren’t explicitly specified anywhere else in the Constitution. Kevorkian believes that the Ninth amendment protects a person’s right to die through assisted suicide; according to him it also protects personal decisions such as not wearing a seat belt.
Just last year Kevorkian was released from state prison after he served eight years for assisting in the death of a 52-year-old-man who had Lou Gehrig’s disease. As a response to his being locked up for helping people fulfill their death desires Kevorkian feels that he should now fight the government by becoming apart of it. He is quoted saying the government is tyrannical, “You’ve been trained to obey it, not fight for it because the tyrant doesn’t like that.”
~Who better to fight the tyrant than a self-proclaimed assisted murderer~
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