Yesterday, NPR and The Nation featured a pro-assisted suicide commentary by Ann Neumann.[1] Her commentary overlooked gaps in the Oregon and Washington assisted-suicide laws. She uncritically accepted Compassion & Choices's marketing claims that it promotes patient choice for "terminal" patients. This blog presents the other side.
A Recipe for Abuse
Physician-assisted suicide laws in Oregon and Washington have gaps that put patients at risk.[2] The most obvious gap is a lack of witnesses at the death.[3] Without disinterested witnesses, the opportunity is created for someone else to administer the lethal dose to the patient against his will. Even if the patient struggled, who would know?
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