NEWS FLASH! The AMA votes to RETAIN IT'S POSITION AND LANGUAGE AGAINST ASSISTED SUICIDE by margin of 2:1 !!

From:Mark Komrad

Sent:Monday, June 10, 2019 6:17:19 PM

Subject:NEW FLASH! The AMA votes to RETAIN IT'S POSITION AND LANGUAGE AGAINST ASSISTED SUICIDE by margin of 2:1 !!

Hot off the press:

After a heated battle over the last year and a half,  and three recommendations from the AMA Committee on Ethics and Judicial Affairs to retain the language of the AMA’s position opposing assisted suicide and euthanasia,  The American Medical Association (AMA) today AFFIRMED the CEJA report which recommends that  it RETAIN its opposition to these practices by physicians.   The vote was 65-35, a stunningly huge margin of victory. 

This means that, though physicians administering assisted suicide in U.S. states where these practices are permitted may be practicing legally, that practice remains unethical, according to the ethical guidelines of major medical organizations like the AMA, the WMA, the ACP, the APA, and many other major medical organizations that “profess” a code of ethics.  This is the stance that has been at the core of medical values since Hippocrates, and endured as nations have come and gone, and their demands on physicians have varied in ways that have challenged various aspects of Medicine's core ethos. 

The AMA position continues to read:

  "“Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia is fundamentally incompatible with the physician’s role as healer, would be difficult or impossible to control, and would pose serious societal risks”