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Christian Leader Suffering from Terminal Cancer Takes a Stand Against New Assisted Suicide Law: 'Tomorrow Belongs to God'

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Christian Leader Suffering from Terminal Cancer Takes a Stand Against New Assisted Suicide Law: 'Tomorrow Belongs to God'

As an able-bodied Christian, it’s actually quite easy for me to say that I’m opposed to assisted suicide.

God made us in His image, giving us dignity and beauty. Why would I ever want to see that snuffed out early — or more alarmingly, why would I ever want the government to decide when to snuff us out early?

But, again, I’m relatively healthy, a few extra pounds around the waist notwithstanding. Assisted suicide laws are something of an abstraction to me.

There is nothing abstract about those laws for Jason J. McGuire, president and CEO of the Christian and conservative New York Families Foundation and New York Families Action.

McGuire is battling Stage IV colorectal cancer, and it does not look great for the Christian leader.

In an article for World News Group, entitled, “Why I will quietly decline,” McGuire opened up about coming to grips with his mortality — and why he’ll still never accept the indignity of assisted suicide.

“My prognosis places me among those eligible under New York’s assisted-suicide law,” McGuire wrote. “After spending more than a decade opposing the law in Albany, I now........

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