HIGHLIGHT PIECE OF THE WEEK:
As Psychiatrists, Do We Offer Hope or Do We Offer Death?
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A psychiatrist writes, "To offer the option of a death facilitated by the very person who is trying to get them better seems so counter to everything I have learned and contradicts our role as psychiatrists who work so hard to prevent suicide." Keep Reading (6 min) ([link removed]) .
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** The Progressive Case Against Assisted Suicide
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Progressives must not support assisted suicide laws because they make second-class citizens of disabled and older individuals by effectively eliminating suicide prevention and offering suicide assistance instead.
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** Assisted Suicide Easier to Access Than Real Health Care For Disability
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"Every expansion of assisted suicide and euthanasia simply adds additional subsets of people with disabilities to the group of those who qualify or makes it easier, quicker, or cheaper for them to get it."
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** UK Doctor Says Legalizing Assisted Suicide Will Endorse Death
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"Legalization would mean palliative care would become 'subservient' to assisted suicide in hospices, as he said had happened in Canada with its Medical Assistance in Dying program."
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"End Assisted Suicide" is the group of plaintiffs suing the state of California to overturn the Assisted Suicide law there. Our 501(c)(3) sister organization, the Institute for Patients' Rights, has joined this ground-breaking lawsuit as a plaintiff. Below is the last of a frequently asked questions series.
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