It's Almost Over— More Letters on Debbie

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To the Editor.— The flood of opinion in the April 8 issue of JAMA 1 confirms my first impression that printing It's Over, 2 provided an important, timely platform for a colloquy on euthanasia. Lundberg 3 defends his position to publish without editorial comment with scholarship and grace. The court now supports his right to withhold the name of the author. The sad part is that he had to defend these editorial privileges at all. In a COMMENTARY 4 in this same issue, four ethicists of some repute take a position against a fundamental right when they condemnTHE JOURNALfor printing the Debbie piece. They say, What in the world is going on? And so say I. What's going on when learned men who teach what is right and just strike out at the First Amendment? And they do it ad hominem, almost in paroxysmal bursts of hysterical