Rita Marker Quotations

Human nature being what it is, we tend to say we're following all the guidelines when in reality we're not.

Few people realize the vital role private foundations play in promoting societal change. More often than not, major shifts in public attitudes and public policy come not from grassroots clamor but rather from the hard work of a committed few activists with the ideas and the donors who fund them, ... Without the money that is the mother's milk of public advocacy, those inspired to agitate for change would not get very far. The assisted suicide/euthanasia movement typifies this phenomenon.

There have been attempts ever since in the California Assembly to push a bill through, and they have never made it. It's being tried again, though, in the (Legislature), and there has been some fancy footwork.

telling people that if it's legal, it's right.

Once you've transformed euthanasia into a medical treatment, there's no logical way you can say that it should not be available to children. People who support euthanasia should do so with their eyes open. It will eventually be available to everyone.

It will be like giving the household seal of approval. What is currently a crime will be transformed into medical treatment,

This has been simmering for a long time. It is now at the boiling point. It appears that there are people in the California Senate who plan to mount an effort to push it through.