{"id":3798,"date":"2008-10-21T04:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-21T04:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3798"},"modified":"2025-09-30T00:49:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T00:49:41","slug":"martin-sheen-in-ad-opposing-euthanasia-legislation-in-state-of-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3798","title":{"rendered":"Martin Sheen in ad opposing euthanasia legislation in State of Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Here’s my Martin Sheen story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A year or two before he became the President in the series, The West Wing<\/strong> (Prez. Barrett? Bartlett? Whatever – I never watched it) I spent a couple of hours with him in a midtown Manhattan precinct lock-up. Sheen is\/was an anti-war activist and we were arrested at a planned civil disobedience thing on Good Friday, ten or 11 years ago. Protest was over U.S. WMD’s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I didn’t know Sheen was going to be there, but he went along with a Jesuit priest I know, Fr. Ned Murphy, who runs a grass roots anti-poverty operation in the Bronx, called POTS (Part of the Solution).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, Sheen was really a good guy – very down to earth regular person, and quite a raconteur. The sort of person you could easily hang with and have a couple of beers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He takes his Catholicism seriously, although I find his knee jerk support for Democratic candidates very unfortunate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He does support pro-life initiatives though, and did a commercial opposing the euthansia initiative coming up for a vote in Washington State.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Martin Sheen Stars in Ad Opposing Assisted Suicide in Washington State<\/strong><\/font><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Off lifesitenews.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sheen said in his radio spot for “No I-1000” campaign, “It’s a step backwards and I urge you to vote no.” He called it a “dangerous idea that could hurt thousands of low-income people who need medical care.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Out of state euthanasia activists, including those in Oregon, where assisted suicide has been legal since 1994, have thrown their support behind I-1000, hoping its passage will create a domino effect across the country. The initiative would redefine suicide as medical treatment and allow doctors to order lethal drug overdoses even if the patient is simply depressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sheen warned the initiative would undermine efforts to provide quality health care for poor and low income disabled people, presenting medical insurers with suicide as a cheaper alternative. The initiative, he said, could “open up a loophole” in the law that could be used to “cut payments for the disabled and working poor, encouraging them to use assisted suicide.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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