Oppose assisted suicide? You must hate women!

This is one of the sillier things I’ve read in a while. From an op-ed published in the Inquirer this weekend:

Physician-assisted suicide is one of the religious right’s signature issues, used mainly as a wedge in the battle against abortion rights. It lets foes of abortion claim that their commitment to life is absolute and has nothing to do with women’s rights. The administration is quite willing to throw over Republican principles about federalism and individual freedom to appease the religious right.

Riiiiight. ‘Cause no one could possibly oppose assisted suicide in good faith. It’s all part of the right-wing conspiracy to enslave women (itself an interesting reading of what the debate over abortion is about). For what it’s worth, I’m sympathetic to the federalism argument in this case, but this is just dumb.