Euthanasia Prevention Coalition: Behind the Curtain of Assisted Suicide Advocacy

Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Euthanasia Prevention Coalition: Behind the Curtain of Assisted Suicide Advocacy:

The United States assisted suicide movement claims that it wants only a limited “reform” of law and medical ethics, restricting what it euphemistically calls “aid in dying” to competent adults with terminal illnesses for whom nothing else can be done to alleviate their suffering. But this claim isn’t true. Currently, no law permitting doctors to write lethal prescriptions mandates any objective medical determination that the patient is actually suffering. Indeed, a 2008 study published in JAMA Internal Medicine found that patients sometimes receive lethal prescriptions even when they are not experiencing serious pain or other noxious symptoms.