"Choice" Is An Illusion: Oregon Page Updated

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Assisted suicide proponents claim that legalization will give you "choice." But whose choice will it be?

In Oregon and Washington State, where assisted suicide is legal, there is no oversight over administration of the lethal dose. If the patient objected or even struggled, who would know?

Legalization invites abuse of seniors, for example, in the inheritance context where heirs and predators financially benefit from a patient's death.

In Oregon, there are documented cases of that state's Medicaid program using coverage incentives to steer patients to suicide.

Many jurisdictions without legal assisted suicide already have a significant problem with some doctors and nurses administering lethal drugs to non-consenting, non-dying patients. If you can't control the abuse now, where assisted suicide is not legal, why would you give doctors and nurses more power to abuse patients by legalizing it?

Being steered to suicide, killed and/or abused is not "choice."

"Choice" is an illusion.

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Why Choice is an Illusion?

Sunday, August 14, 2011

Oregon Page Updated