After ten years and 300 deaths, what is there to learn from America's assisted suicide frontier?

As his days were racing to an early end, my father had to discuss with his doctors all the choices available for treatment.

Following Dr. Jack Kevorkian's release from prison this month, assisted-suicide activists have taken to America's airwaves and oped pages to caution us against getting the wrong idea about the right to die.

"Terri, are you sitting down?"the nurse asked over the telephone. "We got your test results back and they were positive. You're pregnant."

The push for pre-natal diagnostic tests for pregnant mothers just became stronger.

She was a fresh-faced young woman with a couple of adorable kids, whiling away an hour in the sandbox at the park near my home. So was I, or so I thought.

A medical resident we called her "Dr. Death" at the Intensive Care Unit at Long Island's North Shore Hospital chased us down the hallway.

In order to persuade the personally opposed pro-choicer we must address this 1970's feminist fallacy that abortion is necessary for women's sexual equality and well-being

In 1999 my son was given a prenatal diagnosis of "fetal anomalies incompatible with life". I was offered "choices".

The success or failure of political or social revolutions often depends on the terms used in the debate. But what if the existing lexicon and traditional understanding of words and phrases hurt the cause and bog down the movement? The answer is simple: If the people don't want to follow where you want to take them, make the destination appear more attractive. This is precisely what proponents of the "right to die" have done.