(NRO) – The California media are atwitter with my state’s new assisted suicide law. And they are touting a death doctor named Lonny Shavelson who is opening a practice in suicide prescribing–for only $2000, if one decided to obtain the prescription.

Shavelson is a coward who once witnessed the murder of a disabled man by a Hemlock Society zealot and did nothing. Media misses that entirely. But here’s the point. Shavelson has been a part time or contract ER doctor for his medical career. He is not a specialist in cancer, ALS, or other terminal conditions. CONTINUE