Assisted-Suicide Advocate Jack Kevorkian Announces Congressional Bid
SOUTHFIELD, Mich. — Assisted-suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian announced Monday he’s running for Congress as an independent.
If elected, he said his main priority will be promoting the little-known Ninth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the rights it guarantees. The Ninth Amendment protects rights not explicitly specified elsewhere in the Constitution, and Kevorkian says he interprets it as protecting a person’s choice to die through assisted suicide or to avoid wearing a seat belt.
Kevorkian, 79, a retired pathologist, claims to have helped at least 130 people die from 1990 until 1998.
The congressional seat in Detroit’s suburbs is now held by Republican Rep. Joe Knollenberg, who is seeking re-election. Gary Peters, a former state senator and state lottery commissioner, is running for the Democratic nomination. Michigan’s statewide nonpresidential primaries are on Aug. 5.
He was released from state prison last year after serving eight years for helping Thomas Youk, a 52-year-old Oakland County man with Lou Gehrig’s disease, die in 1998. He was convicted of second-degree murder the following year.
Although he has been nicknamed “Dr. Death,” Kevorkian didn’t say much about assisted suicide when he spoke to reporters Monday morning.
He said the government is tyrannical. “You’ve been trained to obey it, not fight for it because the tyrant doesn’t like that,” Kevorkian said.
First, I’m from Michigan and I’m no liberal. Only the downstate areas are really liberal (Wayne County).
Second, how can a convicted felon run for office? Dr. Death is a sickko publicity hound, just like his former attorney, Jeff Feiger (another liberal wacko).
Wayne County might support him, but the real of the state sees him for what he is: a convicted murder.
Should give us something else to pay attention to other than Obama and Clinton.
Fun!
if he was running in my state he would have my vote!
A person with the right to vote can vote if they want to, but isn’t required by law. Since we have the right to life, liberty etc. why cant we choose with those? Assuming I have the right to life, then I should have the right to say no thanks to it. The right to something implies a choice. All he did was help people go through with their choice. If somebody wants to vote but can’t physically operate a voting machine, we assist them with going through with their vote. I see the people he assisted as being in a similar boat.
GET REAL! OK, so Michiganders are liberal for the most part — surely to Goodness they’re not this liberal!! Just GET REAL!!
I wish Dr. Kervorkian the best on his congressional bid.
I’ve heard of candidates who are pro-life, but pro-death???
Could be cool, if nothing else for making people on both sides of the aisle freak if he wins.
And his campaign motto is “Vote for me or I’ll kill you”
How can a CONVICTED MURDER Become anything other than a Murder…….