A columnist for The Boston Globe recently reported a story about a woman traveling from Connecticut to Vermont to use the state's physician-assisted suicide law — except he made himself part of the story.
The story notes that to take advantage of Vermont's physician-assisted suicide law, someone needs two witnesses to sign for the person saying the person is mentally competent enough to decide to kill himself.
At the beginning of January, commissioner Robert Goldstein of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health issued a memorandum to all Massachusetts health care providers, supposedly to remind them about their licensure obligations.
But to careful readers, it was immediately apparent that the letter represented a thinly veiled threat against the license of any medical professional who partners with pro-life pregnancy resource centers, also sometimes called crisis pregnancy centers.
