Good news from California

California "Right to Die" Bill Stalls Amid Opposition from Religious Groups.  More here.  Good.  Unfortunately, and perhaps because the piece is in The Guardian, there's a lack of comprehension of, let alone sympathy for, these "religious groups'" opposition.  For example:

Religious groups say allowing doctors to prescribe life-ending drugs is assisted suicide and goes against God’s will. Religious opposition helped defeat similar legislation in California in 2007.

It's hardly unique to, or even distinctive of, "religious groups" to characterize "allowing doctors to prescribe life-ending drugs" as "assisted suicide."  Nor (more important) are the important arguments religious (and other) groups make against assisted suicide limited to the observation that the practice "goes against God's will."  Although Glucksberg was given pretty short shrift by the Supreme Court recent, it nevertheless provides (according to this admittedly biased former Rehnquist clerk) a pretty good summary of a number of very good reasons -- in addition to "God's will" -- for being worried about assisted suicide.  As did, if I recall, the amicus briefs of the many "religious groups" that were filed in the case.