A Letter to the Editor in today’s Burlington Free Press questions Vermont Attorney General Candidate, T.J. Donovan’s, support of assisted suicide. Brenda Pepin of Montpelier notes that Donovan has acknowledged his need to prosecute abuse against the elderly and the vulnerable, but then supports assisted suicide. She poses the following question to Donovan, that makes clear the hypocrisy of his stance: “If an elderly woman can be bullied into turning over her social security check, why doesn’t Donovan understand that it is possible to pressure her into making a request for a lethal dose and bullying her into taking it?”
View the entire letter at BurlingtonFreePress.com: http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20120821/OPINION03/308210010/Letter-Support-assisted-suicide-questioned?nclick_check=1