PRAF's Policy Advisor, Jason Negri, says in this article, "Such ‘safeguards’ include waiting periods, residency and witness requirements, and conscience protection for doctors who don’t want to help their patients die...The safeguards are a calculated move to garner support from people who are uncertain about assisted suicide. The safeguards are often removed within a few years."

Dr. Jason T. Kolb, MD, and emergency care physician, writes, "On the battlefield, a soldier is obligated to disobey an illegal order from his commanding officer. So too am I compelled in the hospital to refuse a patient’s unethical request for the means to complete their suicide. Just as a physician would never hand a rope or gun to a patient wanting to end their life, neither should a physician hand a prescription to such a patient."

In this piece, read three voices sharing their opposition to the UK's assisted suicide bill. One author states, "The risk is that the bill could unintentionally set us on a path where choosing to die becomes seen as a selfless or responsible act, disproportionately affecting the poorest and most vulnerable in our society, and safeguards will be eroded as society becomes 'trained' to see assisted dying as just another life option."

PRAF's Executive Director, Matt Vallière, wrote this on the French National Assembly vote from yesterday: There is a lot of talk of “rights” and “suffering,” of “liberté” and “fraternité,” but what the French proponents, just as those here in the US, fail to truly grapple with: who do these laws hurt? Who could be coerced? Do you violate the rights of others by passing such a law?

PRAF is a leading national, non-partisan single-issue organization that protects the rights of patients, people with disabilities, older adults, and other historically underrepresented groups from deadly harm and discrimination inherent in assisted suicide laws.

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