Physician-Assisted Suicide

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Physician-Assisted Suicide | Legalizing Physician- Assisted Suicide Would Lead to Patient Abuse

Kevin Irvine is a member of Not Dead Yet, a disability-rights action group that works to prevent the legalization of physician-assisted suicide.

Source: he U.S. health care system takes a bottom-line approach to medical care and views disabled and terminally-ill patients as expenses. As a result, if health care providers were given legal authority to carry out physician-assisted suicide, they would do so even against patients’ wishes because such an approach would reduce the costs of caring for the seriously ill.

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