I clearly must have heard Newt wrong

I was flipping news channels this morning, you know, to get all that unbiased news that each channel "thinks" they provide, and Newt was on one of them. I clearly must have heard him wrong because I believe he was actually saying (in regards to the health care bill) that he was in favor of an end-of-life patient being able to bring up with their doctor the notion of ending their life. The point he was making was that it was ok to for that patient to talk to their doctor about it, but it wasn't ok for the government to bring up that conversation for the patient (this is the crazy death-panel notion they are all talking about now). However, none of that is my point, yet again. It's just the catalyst for the blog piece.

Again, my point is the pro-life movement that I think should involve all pro-life situations. It seems this would be one of those situations. If you think no one should play God with abortion, why can they with the death penalty (we all know how I feel about this as I've definitely blogged about that before). But why doesn't this fall into that same (always error on the side of life) issue. Isn't choosing to take your own life (no matter the situation) playing God as well? And if they don't want the government involved in any decision like that, why is that different then the government being involved in the abortion issue? To me, they are all the same. They are life ending choices that the government shouldn't be involved in, period.

Now, for the full disclosure, I'm not saying that I'm not in favor of choosing to end my own life in certain situations... I'm honestly not sure about that... and probably won''t be entirely sure unless I was actually IN one of those situations. I'm certainly not judging those that choose that option. The point is, I'm just still wondering why they don't see that it's all the same idea. Can't be pro-life without being pro ALL life. And yes, I realize I sound like a broken record on this one, but that at least shows my consistency. That isn't to say I don't struggle with all of the three situations, because I do. Personally, I wouldn't have an abortion. There are probably times when even though I'm against the death penalty, I could understand seeking it for someone. And, I can certainly understand wanting to choose to end your life rather than suffering when you know the end is near anyway. So, I get that there are internal struggles around these things even with as strongly as I feel about them. But if you (generically) are really pro-life, it seems that these things should only be internal struggles at certain times. Seems the real "pro-lifers" should be against ALL these things that cause death by playing God.