Assisted Suicide Is Americans' Top Moral Issue

45% vs. 48%

How Americans are divided over doctor-assisted suicide’s moral acceptability — the most controversial of 17 cultural issues Gallup tested this year. Many also disagree about whether abortion and out-of-wedlock births are morally right or wrong. More than 9 in 10 say extramarital affairs are wrong.

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Don’t tell Gallup or the GOP, but hospice care is physician-assisted death. Hospice care is palliative treatment for the terminally ill. Most health care professionals agree that the morphine dosage gets stronger and stronger, until the patient’s respiratory system fails and the patient dies.

Would I enroll in hospice care? You bet I would! I believe in it.

Assisted Suicide Is Americans’ Top Moral Issue

45% vs. 48%

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Poetic Justice

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“One woman at a rally in New Jersey told me last week that she was ‘nauseously optimistic.’ That may capture a lot of people’s last-minute jitters.”

— Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), quoted by Axios, on what Democrats feel ahead of the midterm elections.

“I think Congress made a mistake not protesting turning the Rose Garden into what looks like the entrance to Liberace’s bathroom.”

— Former President Bill Clinton, quoted by The Wrap.

“Boy, they are scraping the bottom of the barrel. It feels like a real desperation play to me, because it has got zero basis in the law.”

— Republican election law expert Ben Ginsberg, quoted by Politico, on the Trump administration’s effort to invalidate Alaska’s election results.

Numerati

3,824

$1.4 billion

-35 points

31%

63% to 38%

KFF Poll: “With the 2026 midterm campaigns in full swing and early voting about to begin, there is a wide enthusiasm gap between partisan voters, with Democratic voters 25 percentage points more likely than Republican voters to say they are ‘more motivated’ than usual to vote (63% vs. 38%).”