Led by Democratic legislators, last week saw the Medical Aid in Dying Act introduced in the state Legislature of New York. But when you think deeply about the practice of assisted suicide, it is antithetical to liberal values.
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A Dutch woman doctor who asked an elderly patient's family to hold her down while she administered a fatal drug dose has been cleared under Holland's euthanasia laws.
For the first time in Dutch history a doctor in the Netherlands was reprimanded for giving euthanasia to a dementia patient while it was not conclusively established that euthanasia was what the woman wanted at that time.
Continue Reading → Euthanasia controversy: doctor rebuked for helping uncertain woman die
People who espouse “progressive values”, who include those advocating for the legalization of euthanasia, adopt a mantra of “choice, change and control”. However, this mantra presents an illusion of control that is not present in life.
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Piecemeal victories for “right to die” activists have, over the years, resulted in a gradual erosion of limits to assisted suicide in true slippery slope form.
Continue Reading → The Slippery Slope-Tactics in the Assisted Suicide Movement