Fallout by Jacob Appel6/20/2023 The more Americans know about the right-to-die movement, including the safeguards that reasonable people believe should be imposed as part of any system of consensual assisted suicide, the sooner aid-in-dying will be legalized in this country. If many Americans remain uncomfortable with assisted suicide - and polling data consistently shows that about half of us still do - it is because they mistakenly believe that it will lead to forcible euthanasia of the disabled or elderly. Although many religious leaders and disability-rights advocates favor assisted suicide, a public perception remains that these communities are opposed to legalization.Īlarmist predictions that assisted suicide will lead to the murder of vulnerable patients scare the public and poison debate on the subject. At the same time, organizations like “Not Dead Yet” unfairly attempt to link voluntary assisted suicide with involuntary euthanasia. Some conservative political and religious figures, many also associated with the anti-abortion movement, have embraced opposition to assisted suicide as part of a broader “culture war” against progressive bioethics. Unfortunately, most Americans still do not have this option. If many Americans remain uncomfortable with assisted suicide, it is because they mistakenly believe that it will lead to forcible euthanasia of the disabled or elderly.
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