'Should withdraw from the race in disgrace'
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By Gabe Kaminsky
Daily Caller News Foundation
Democratic Michigan congressional nominee Robert Lorinser claimed it could be “proper and ethical” for children suffering from a “terminal illness” to receive a medically assisted suicide, according to a Facebook post obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
“[S]uch a difficult issue -DYING,” Lorinser, who is running to unseat Republican Rep. Jack Bergman in November and is also a doctor, wrote on Facebook on Oct. 20, 2018. “Children are harder than dying after a long life. Calling it medical assisting dying –I like. When, who, how–devil is in the details.”
“Calling it suicide or killing is definitely negative and ‘wrong”. [sic] Calling it medical assisting dying may obscure the issue. A suffering child with a terminal illness say within weeks or months could it be proper and ethical. I think so,” Lorinser wrote in the post, which has since been made private, thus shielded from public view.
Medically assisted suicide is the process by which a patient agrees a physician may end their life often by administering a lethal dose of drugs.