Monday musing: The other pro-life election issue

As you pray over tomorrow's momentous election, remember Massachusetts. Voters there are deciding on a proposal to legalize physician-assisted suicide. They would be the third state to do so (behind Oregon and Washington).

But there are a chorus of influential voices in opposition:

• Boston Globe: No on Proposal 2
• Ted Kennedy's wife: Vote no on assisted suicide in MA
• American Nurses Association: Draft statement opposing assisted suicide/euthanasia
• Providence Journal blog: Why to vote no on Mass. Question 2
• E. J. Dionne: Liberals should be wary of assisted suicide
• NY Times opinion: Suicide by choice? Not so fast
• Ira Byock: Assisted suicide is not progressive
• Choice is an Illusion blog: Users of assisted suicide are senior with money
• Dr. Barbara Rockett: Physician-assisted suicide “in direct conflict” with doctor’s role
• Wesley J. Smith: Our dangerous obsession with 'health'
• Ezekiel Emanuel: Four myths about doctor-assisted suicide

Don't, however, be lulled into complacency! Advocates of euthanasia are persistent and will, no doubt, bring it up for a a vote again. And again and again. So pray!

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Finally, a few words from Hosea 10 this election-eve:

          Sow with a view to righteousness,
                Reap in accordance with kindness;
                        Break up your fallow ground,
                              For it is time to seek the Lord
                        Until He comes to rain righteousness on you.
                You have plowed wickedness, you have reaped injustice,
          You have eaten the fruit of lies.

Postscript: A couple other last minute pre-election reads:

• Albert Mohler: A prayer for America on Election Day
• Joe Carter: 5 ways presidents affect the pro-life cause

Post-postscript: The assisted suicide proposal was narrowly defeated Tuesday.