There will be a lot of political news in the next week. But I don’t want it missed that apparently West Virginia voters narrowly passed a constitutional amendment banning assisted suicide. This is the first time that the so-called right to die movement has been proactively pushed back — as opposed to successfully defending against that policy’s spread. Good on West Virginia Right to Life and its allies who helped make this possible.

I just wish my mentor on this issue, Rita Marker, had lived to see it. Also, the great anti-assisted-suicide and disability-rights campaigner Diane Coleman — who founded Not Dead Yet — who recently passed away. Memory Eternal.