Dr. Jack Kevorkian Speaks Out

As reported earlier on this blog, Dr. Jack Kevorkian was released from prison on June 1, 2007.

Dr. Kevorkian has wasted no time in speaking out on his views of physician-assisted suicide.  In an interview yesterday (June 3, 2007), he

let loose a rush of fierce words about a nation that did not pass any new laws allowing assisted suicide while he was in prison. Again and again, he called the government “the tyrant.” He called the public “sheep.” He called some of his harshest critics “religious fanatics or nuts.” * * *

Mr. Kevorkian also criticized the existing Oregon law — and other proposed legislation, including a bill being considered in the California Legislature this week — as not going far enough. Most proposed laws require ill people to administer the lethal drugs themselves, which Mr. Kevorkian said would exclude people unable to move or swallow on their own and in need of a physician’s direct help.

See Monica Davey, Kevorkian Speaks After His Release From Prison , NY Times, June 4, 2007.