[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.]
CNN legal analyst Mel Robbins acted as an activist for a liberal cause on the 20 October 2014 edition of CNN Newsroom as they discussed the debate over euthanasia: "I disagree with the 45 states that make it illegal. I think that we should have death with dignity laws." Robbins later played up that "this is happening behind closed doors, and that's why I think these laws are important – to bring it out of the shadows."
Anchor Brooke Baldwin speculated whether a movement for the legalization of euthanasia would follow the path set by another pet cause of the left:
BROOKE BALDWIN: Do you think we will eventually, just like...and totally, this is apples and oranges – what we've seen with the legalization of marijuana?...It's not treated as it was five years ago, let's say. Might we see that, over the course of the next few years, with right-to-die, do you think?