Neil Gorsuch, Supreme Court nominee, known to bioethicists as scholar on assisted dying

Neil Gorsuch of the Tenth U.S. Cir­cuit Court of Appeals, now the Su­preme Court nominee, is known as a scholar on physician-assisted dying.

Gorsuch, his wife, and two daughters attend St. John’s Episcopal Church in Boulder, Colorado.

Gorsuch is the author of The Fu­ture of Assisted Suicide and Eutha­nasia, which argues for maintaining laws against such practices. “All human beings are intrinsically valuable and the intentional taking of human life by private persons is always wrong,” he wrote.