The Carter decision to allow assisted suicide and euthanasia claimed that Canada could avoid abuses through careful guidelines and screening. Experience proves otherwise.
"The proper response to an unjust law is conscientious objection," says the head of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, "And this is an unjust law."
Euthanasia is so accepted that doctors must now justify prolonging a life.
Utilitarian philosopher Peter Singer says some humans — particularly fetuses, newborn babies, and elderly people suffering from dementia — should be killed if their deaths will reduce overall suffering. Never mind that Singer broke all of his own rules when his mother became ill with Alzheimer's disease.
In 2001 The Netherlands was the first country in the world to legalize euthanasia and, along with it, assisted suicide.
Some people with disabilities are angry about my opposition to legalizing euthanasia.
I have researched and written on euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide for over thirty years. Im going to assume that you have probably heard all the usual arguments for and against euthanasia, many of which are very important and prominent in this debate. But I want to focus on some aspects that might not yet have been presented.
We must consider the damage to medicine if physicians are allowed to kill.
